Elpidocrinus
No picture of Elpidocrinus 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 Elpidocrinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElpidocrinidaePBDB
- 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 24 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 419.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Elpidocrinus 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
3 occurrences- Silurian100%
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 Elpidocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Elpidocrinus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Elpidocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
179 taxa- Allocrinus3 sites
- Ananaspis3 sites
- Asaphocrinus3 sites
- Atrypa3 sites
- Cheirurus3 sites
- Dicoelosia3 sites
- Eucalyptocrinites3 sites
- Euspirocrinus3 sites
- Gissocrinus3 sites
- Hexacrinites3 sites
- Homoeospira3 sites
- Kosovopeltis3 sites
- Lampterocrinus3 sites
- Lissatrypa3 sites
- Macrostylocrinus3 sites
- Myelodactylus3 sites
- Neoarchaeocrinus3 sites
- Pisocrinus3 sites
- Synchirocrinus3 sites
- Abyssocrinus2 sites
- Anastrophia2 sites
- Bactrocrinites2 sites
- Botryocrinus2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Elpidocrinus, 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- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America2
- Hunton Group of the Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma:1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Elpidocrinus 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 Elpidocrinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elpidocrinus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itElpidocrinidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Strimple 1963