Eleutherocrinus cassedayi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EleutherocrinusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Eleutherocrinus cassedayi on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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- Devonian100%
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
- Hungry Hollow Formation · Hamilton Group1
- Ludlowville Formation1
- Beechwood Formation · Sellersburg Group1
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The named rock units Eleutherocrinus cassedayi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eleutherocrinus cassedayi and its relatives
DevonianWhere Eleutherocrinus cassedayi and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Alveolites1 site
- Atribonium kernahani1 site
- Callipleura nobilis1 site
- Camarospira1 site
- Centronella impressa1 site
- Cranaena1 site
- Devonoblastus whiteavesi1 site
- Dolatocrinus1 site
- Favosites1 site
- Megistocrinus1 site
- Parazyga hirsuta1 site
- Pentagonia1 site
- Prismatophyllum1 site
- Richina truncata1 site
- Spirifer1 site
- Trematospira1 site
- Vitulina pustulosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Eleutherocrinus cassedayi, 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- Bibliographic and faunal index of Paleozoic pelmatozoan echinoderms2
- New Devonian (Hamilton) correlations1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Eleutherocrinus cassedayi 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 Eleutherocrinus cassedayi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eleutherocrinus cassedayi 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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What may have been alongside itEleutherocrinus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shumard and Yandell 1856