Culmicrinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BlothrocrinidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cladida
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Cladida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cladida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At least 9.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 339.9 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
3 occurrences of Culmicrinus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
3 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
2 formations
- Lodgepole Formation · Madison Group1
- Borden Formation1
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The named rock units Culmicrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Culmicrinus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Culmicrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
99 taxa- Platycrinites2 sites
- ? Finestrella sp.1 site
- Abatocrinus grandis1 site
- Abrotocrinus1 site
- Actinocrinites1 site
- Adinocrinus1 site
- Agaricocrinus1 site
- Alloprosallocrinus conicus1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Aulocrinus1 site
- Aulopora1 site
- Barycrinus1 site
- Barycrinus rhombiferus1 site
- Barycrinus spurius1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Cactocrinus1 site
- Camarotoechia1 site
- Camptocrinus1 site
- Catillocrinus1 site
- Cheilotrypa1 site
- Chonetes1 site
- Cleiothyridnia sublamellosa1 site
- Cleistopora1 site
- Composita1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Culmicrinus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
3 references- Crinoids from the Muldraugh Member of the Borden Formation in north-central Kentucky (Echinodermata, Lower Mississippian)1
- Geology of the Eastern Flank of the Little Belt Mountains with emphasis on Carbonate Buildup; Judith Basin County, Montana1
- Crinoiden aus dem Paläozoikum des Kantabrischen Gebirges (Nordspanien)1
Each of the 3 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Culmicrinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Culmicrinus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBlothrocrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jaekel 1918