Dimerocrinites

Dimerocrinites is an extinct genus of crinoids that lived from the Silurian to the Early Devonian of Australia and North America.

Dimerocrinites

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 85 occurrencesSilurian — about 81 of 85 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 4 of 85 occurrencesDevonian444–443 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 2 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 2 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 4 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 4 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 4 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 4 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 4 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 8 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 10 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 9 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 7 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 7 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 7 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 3 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 1 occurrence425–424 Mya — about 1 occurrence424–423 Mya — about 1 occurrence423–422 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438.6 Mya419.62 Mya443.7 Mya412.4 Mya

85 occurrences of Dimerocrinites 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

85 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

18 formations

Scotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 90.50°WScotch Grove — 41.90°N, 90.60°WScotch Grove — 41.77°N, 91.13°WScotch Grove — 41.92°N, 90.92°WScotch Grove — 42.12°N, 91.13°WScotch Grove — 42.48°N, 90.87°WScotch Grove — 41.85°N, 90.18°WScotch Grove — 42.17°N, 91.10°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 43.01°N, 88.38°WRacine — 42.00°N, 88.00°WRacine — 41.85°N, 87.65°WRacine — 41.65°N, 87.68°WWaldron Shale — 39.45°N, 85.67°WJupiter — 49.47°N, 63.62°WJupiter — 49.20°N, 62.90°WJupiter — 49.50°N, 63.30°WJupiter — 49.10°N, 61.70°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WRochester Shale — 43.20°N, 77.53°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WRochester Shale — 43.17°N, 78.68°WHopkinton — 43.00°N, 91.00°WHopkinton — 42.50°N, 91.50°WHopkinton — 42.17°N, 90.58°WWayne — 36.08°N, 87.00°WWayne — 35.38°N, 88.00°WLaurel — 39.50°N, 85.47°WGower — 41.51°N, 90.58°WRochester Shale — 43.12°N, 79.20°WRochester Shale — 43.03°N, 79.28°WLaurel Limestone — 39.43°N, 85.63°WHopkinton Dolomite — 42.43°N, 90.77°WIrondequoit Limestone — 43.21°N, 77.58°WGasport Limstone — 43.20°N, 78.58°WCoeymans — 42.97°N, 75.15°WBirdsong Shale — 35.88°N, 88.12°WRochester — 43.17°N, 79.03°WLochkov — 50.03°N, 14.33°E

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The named rock units Dimerocrinites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dimerocrinites and its relatives

Silurian

Where Dimerocrinites and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

675 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 66 sites for Dimerocrinites, 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

11 references

Each of the 85 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 content2

Picture of Dimerocrinites

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3D model

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The description on this site

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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. Phillips 1839