Deocrinus asperatus
No picture of Deocrinus asperatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Deocrinus asperatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DeocrinusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Diplobathrida
- Life habit
- upper-level epifaunalPBDB, for Diplobathrida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Diplobathrida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 452.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Deocrinus asperatus 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Deocrinus asperatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Deocrinus asperatus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Deocrinus asperatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Blastoidocrinus carchariaedens1 site
- Bolboporites americanus1 site
- Canadocystis barrandei1 site
- Canadocystis emmonsi1 site
- Cleionychia montrealensis1 site
- Hybocrinus pristinus1 site
- Palaeocystites1 site
- Ptychopleurella porcia1 site
- Raphistoma calyx1 site
- Triendoceras montrealense1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Deocrinus asperatus, 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
3 references- Bibliographic and faunal index of Paleozoic pelmatozoan echinoderms1
- On some Pelmatozoa from the Chazy Limestone of New York1
- On the Crinoideae of the Lower Silurian rocks of Canada1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Deocrinus asperatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Deocrinus asperatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Deocrinus asperatus 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 itDeocrinus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1859)