Dadocrinus gracilis

No picture of Dadocrinus gracilis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dadocrinus gracilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 1.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 241.464 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 237 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 4 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 4 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243.43 Mya241.464 Mya247.5 Mya236.5 Mya

4 occurrences of Dadocrinus gracilis on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

4 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

1 formation

Wellenkalk — 50.30°N, 18.97°E

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The named rock units Dadocrinus gracilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dadocrinus gracilis and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Dadocrinus gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

101 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Dadocrinus gracilis, 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 4 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 content0

No picture of Dadocrinus gracilis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itDadocrinus through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (von Buch 1845)