Dendrocrinus longidactylus

Dendrocrinus longidactylus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DendrocrinusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Dendrocrinus
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Dendrocrinus
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Dendrocrinus
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 5.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 440.5 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Silurian — about 6 of 6 occurrencesSilurian441–440 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences438.6 Mya432.9 Mya441 Mya426.2 Mya

6 occurrences of Dendrocrinus longidactylus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

6 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

3 formations

Rochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.06°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WRochester Shale — 43.20°N, 77.53°WGlenmark Shale — 43.15°N, 77.06°WSodus — 43.31°N, 76.58°W

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

Dendrocrinus longidactylus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Dendrocrinus longidactylus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

111 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Dendrocrinus longidactylus, 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

2 references

Each of the 6 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 Dendrocrinus longidactylus

Source
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Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Dendrocrinus longidactylus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itDendrocrinus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1852