Cupressocrinitidae

Cupressocrinitidae is an extinct family of crinoid from the Middle to Late Devonian. Cupressocrinites is a representative of this family.

Cupressocrinitidae

porshunta · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GasterocomaceaPBDB
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 4.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 383.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Devonian — about 14 of 14 occurrencesDevonian394–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 1 occurrence387–387 Mya — about 1 occurrence387–387 Mya — about 1 occurrence387–386 Mya — about 1 occurrence386–386 Mya — about 1 occurrence386–385 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences387.95 Mya383.4 Mya394 Mya381.8 Mya

14 occurrences of Cupressocrinitidae on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

14 occurrences

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

8 formations

Ahbach — 50.33°N, 6.78°EBuechel — 51.00°N, 7.14°ESelscheid — 51.17°N, 7.92°ENa Quan — 22.23°N, 106.18°ELoogh — 50.22°N, 6.67°EHanonet — 50.09°N, 5.18°EHagen-Balve — 51.37°N, 7.86°ERoteisenstein — 50.31°N, 7.61°E

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The named rock units Cupressocrinitidae 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.

Cupressocrinitidae and its relatives

Devonian

Where Cupressocrinitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

227 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Cupressocrinitidae, 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

10 references

Each of the 14 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 Cupressocrinitidae

Credit
porshunta
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cupressocrinitidae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGasterocomacea through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roemer 1954