Cupulocrinus jewetti

No picture of Cupulocrinus jewetti was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cupulocrinus jewetti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CupulocrinusPBDB
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 most 13 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 13 of 13 occurrencesOrdovician457–457 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457.8 Mya444.7 Mya

13 occurrences of Cupulocrinus jewetti 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

13 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

Platteville — 44.98°N, 93.27°WPlatteville — 44.00°N, 92.00°WSpechts Ferry — 44.98°N, 93.27°WSpechts Ferry — 42.00°N, 90.50°WDecorah Shale — 44.98°N, 93.27°WDecorah Shale — 44.00°N, 92.00°WIon — 42.00°N, 90.50°WGuttenberg — 42.00°N, 90.50°WBobcaygeon — 44.53°N, 78.55°WBobcaygeon-Verulam — 44.57°N, 79.10°WVerulam — 44.57°N, 79.10°W

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The named rock units Cupulocrinus jewetti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cupulocrinus jewetti and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cupulocrinus jewetti and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

180 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Cupulocrinus jewetti, 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

4 references

Each of the 13 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

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No picture of Cupulocrinus jewetti was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cupulocrinus jewetti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cupulocrinus jewetti 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itCupulocrinus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Billings 1859