Euptychocrinus skopaios
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EuptychocrinusPBDB
- 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 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Euptychocrinus skopaios on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician100%
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
- Dunleith Formation · Galena Group4
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The named rock units Euptychocrinus skopaios has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Euptychocrinus skopaios and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Euptychocrinus skopaios and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Abludoglyptocrinus charltoni2 sites
- Cleiocrinus regius2 sites
- Eopatelliocrinus ornatus2 sites
- Camerata1 site
- Carabocrinus1 site
- Cotylacrinna sandra1 site
- Cremacrinus1 site
- Cremacrinus guttenbergensis1 site
- Cupulocrinus crossmani1 site
- Edrioasteroidea1 site
- Eoparisocrinus1 site
- Hemicystites1 site
- Hybocrinus conicus1 site
- Pleurocystites strimplei1 site
- Porocrinus1 site
- Praecupulocrinus conjugans1 site
- Quienquecaudex springeri1 site
- Tanaocystis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Euptychocrinus skopaios, 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- Camerate crinoids from the Middle Ordovician (Galena Group, Dunleith Formation) of northern Iowa and southern Minnesota3
- Paleoecology of Echinoderm Assemblages from the Upper Ordovician (Katian) Dunleith Formation of Northern Iowa and Southern Minnesota1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Euptychocrinus skopaios 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 Euptychocrinus skopaios, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Euptychocrinus skopaios 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 itEuptychocrinus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brower 1994