Cupulocrinus

Cupulocrinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CupulocrinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Flexibilia
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Flexibilia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Flexibilia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Ordovician — about 123 of 125 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 125 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 125 occurrencesDevonian472–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 12 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 24 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 26 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 30 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 19 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 9 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 4 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences428–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences416–414 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458.2 Mya419.62 Mya472 Mya412 Mya

125 occurrences of Cupulocrinus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

125 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

34 formations

Denley Limestone — 43.88°N, 75.49°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WDunleith — 43.49°N, 91.87°WDunleith — 42.45°N, 89.08°WPlatteville — 44.98°N, 93.27°WPlatteville — 44.00°N, 92.00°WWise Lake — 43.28°N, 91.85°WWise Lake — 42.00°N, 90.50°WDecorah Shale — 44.98°N, 93.27°WDecorah Shale — 44.00°N, 92.00°WSpechts Ferry — 44.98°N, 93.27°WSpechts Ferry — 42.00°N, 90.50°WIon — 42.00°N, 90.50°WMaquoketa — 42.94°N, 91.71°WMaquoketa — 44.00°N, 92.00°WVerulam — 44.75°N, 79.33°WVerulam — 44.57°N, 79.10°WVerulam — 44.17°N, 77.29°WGuttenberg — 42.00°N, 90.50°WGuttenberg — 43.00°N, 91.00°WScales Shale — 42.00°N, 90.50°WScales Shale — 43.05°N, 91.83°WBrainard Shale — 42.00°N, 90.50°WNeda — 42.00°N, 90.50°WBobcaygeon-Verulam — 44.57°N, 79.10°WBobcaygeon-Verulam — 44.53°N, 79.15°WWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWhitewater — 39.49°N, 84.95°WCummingsville — 44.00°N, 92.00°WProsser Limestone — 44.00°N, 92.00°WStewartville — 44.00°N, 92.00°WBobcaygeon — 44.53°N, 78.55°WVaureal — 49.76°N, 63.06°WVaureal — 49.78°N, 63.30°WKings Falls — 43.21°N, 75.46°WBighorn Dolomite — 44.75°N, 107.70°WFort Atkinson — 43.13°N, 91.88°WBrainard — 42.94°N, 91.71°W

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The named rock units Cupulocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cupulocrinus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cupulocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

504 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 91 sites for Cupulocrinus, 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

21 references

Each of the 125 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. 9 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Cupulocrinus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
Free Standard
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1849