Dactylocrinus

Searched as Dactylocrinus beyrichi. The Paleobiology Database treats Dactylocrinus as the accepted name.

Dactylocrinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DactylocrinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Sagenocrinida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Sagenocrinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Sagenocrinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At most 3.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 375.2 Mya and 372.15 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesDevonian375–375 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences375–375 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences375–375 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences375–375 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences375–375 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences374–374 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences374–374 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences374–374 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences374–374 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences374–374 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences374–374 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences374–374 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences373–373 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences373–373 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences373–373 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences373–373 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences373–373 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences373–373 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences375.7 Mya371.65 Mya

2 occurrences of Dactylocrinus 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

2 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

2 formations

Oos — 50.19°N, 6.51°EBüdesheim — 50.19°N, 6.51°E

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

Dactylocrinus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Dactylocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Dactylocrinus, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Dactylocrinus

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

No 3D scan of Dactylocrinus 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 itDactylocrinidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.