Dasciocrinus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PirasocrinidaePBDB
- 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 most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 335.4 Mya and 323.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Dasciocrinus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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- Carboniferous100%
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
- Fraileys Formation · Golconda Group1
- Newman Formation1
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The named rock units Dasciocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dasciocrinus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Dasciocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Tholocrinus2 sites
- Acrocrinus1 site
- Agassizocrinus1 site
- Anthracospirifer leidyi1 site
- Aphelocrinus sp.1 site
- Archimedes1 site
- Camptocrinus1 site
- Cleiothyridina sublamellosa1 site
- Compsaster formosus1 site
- Crininicaminus haneyensis1 site
- Cymbiocrinus1 site
- Harmostocrinus1 site
- Pentaramicrinus1 site
- Pentremites1 site
- Phanocrinus1 site
- Pterotocrinus1 site
- Taxocrinus1 site
- Zaphrentoides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dasciocrinus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Crininicaminus haneyensis, a new agglutinated worm tube from the Chesterian of east-central Kentucky1
- New Chesterian Upper Mississippian crinoids from Illinois1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Dasciocrinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dasciocrinus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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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What may have been alongside itPirasocrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kirk 1939