Dendrocrinus

Dendrocrinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DendrocrinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
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 58 of 96 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 36 of 96 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 2 of 96 occurrencesDevonian472–470 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 2 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 5 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 6 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 10 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 16 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 10 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 5 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 3 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 3 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 3 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 3 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 3 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 4 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 5 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 4 occurrences428–426 Mya — about 4 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 3 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 2 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences416–414 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458.2 Mya419.62 Mya472 Mya412 Mya

96 occurrences of Dendrocrinus 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

96 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

52 formations

Rochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.06°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WRochester Shale — 43.20°N, 77.53°WRochester Shale — 43.17°N, 78.68°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.72°WRochester Shale — 43.22°N, 76.82°WDenley Limestone — 43.21°N, 75.46°WDenley Limestone — 43.88°N, 75.49°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WOttawa — 45.46°N, 75.68°WOttawa — 45.52°N, 73.60°WScales Shale — 42.00°N, 90.50°WBrainard Shale — 42.00°N, 90.50°WNeda — 42.00°N, 90.50°WBromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WKings Falls — 43.21°N, 75.46°WLiberty — 39.42°N, 85.01°WLiberty — 39.00°N, 84.00°WCabot Head — 43.14°N, 79.38°WBrainard — 42.94°N, 91.71°WMaquoketa — 44.00°N, 92.00°WRochester Shale — 43.12°N, 79.20°WRochester Shale — 43.03°N, 79.28°WWolcott Limestone — 43.22°N, 76.82°WVaureal — 49.67°N, 62.92°WEllis Bay — 49.83°N, 64.29°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WBighorn Dolomite — 44.75°N, 107.70°WGlenmark Shale — 43.15°N, 77.06°WFort Atkinson — 43.13°N, 91.88°W

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The named rock units Dendrocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dendrocrinus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Dendrocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

977 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Dendrocrinus, 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

27 references

Each of the 96 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. 15 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 content1

Picture of Dendrocrinus

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

No 3D scan of Dendrocrinus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1852