Eudesicrinus

No picture of Eudesicrinus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eudesicrinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EudesicrinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cyrtocrinida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cyrtocrinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Cyrtocrinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 3 of 4 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 4 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrences201–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences197–195 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences195–193 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences193–191 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences191–189 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences189–187 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences187–185 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences185–183 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences183–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–169 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184.2 Mya149.2 Mya201 Mya142 Mya

4 occurrences of Eudesicrinus on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

4 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

1 formation

Dursztyn — 50.40°N, 19.06°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Eudesicrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eudesicrinus and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Eudesicrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

14 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Eudesicrinus, 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

Each of the 4 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 content0

No picture of Eudesicrinus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eudesicrinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itEudesicrinidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Loriol 1882