Eucrinus

Eucrinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DimerocrinitidaePBDB
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 6.6 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 413.02 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Silurian — about 0 of 1 occurrenceDevonian — about 1 of 1 occurrenceDevonian420–420 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences416–416 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences416–416 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences416–416 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences415–415 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences415–415 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences415–415 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences414–414 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences414–414 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences414–414 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences420.1 Mya412.5 Mya

1 occurrence of Eucrinus 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

1 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.

Eucrinus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Eucrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

14 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Eucrinus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Eucrinus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Eucrinus 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 itDimerocrinitidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Angelin 1878