Fifeocrinus
No picture of Fifeocrinus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Fifeocrinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BlothrocrinidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cladida
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Cladida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cladida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 335.9 Mya and 330.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Fifeocrinus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
2 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Lower Limestone Formation · Clackmannan Group2
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The named rock units Fifeocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fifeocrinus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Fifeocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Adinocrinus2 sites
- Amphicrinus2 sites
- Anemetocrinus2 sites
- Aphelecrinus2 sites
- Arctichthyocrinus springeri2 sites
- Caldenocrinus2 sites
- Cribanocrinus2 sites
- Hydreionocrinus2 sites
- Lanecrinus2 sites
- Litocrinus2 sites
- Parazeacrinites2 sites
- Pelecocrinus2 sites
- Phanocrinus2 sites
- Platycrinites2 sites
- Rhabdocrinus2 sites
- Scotiacrinus2 sites
- Tyrieocrinus2 sites
- Ureocrinus bockschii2 sites
- Woodocrinus2 sites
- Aexitrophocrinus1 site
- Allagecrinus1 site
- Allocatillocrinus1 site
- Aulodesocrinus1 site
- Borestus wrighti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Fifeocrinus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 Fifeocrinus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Fifeocrinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fifeocrinus 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 itBlothrocrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wright 1951