Gaulocrinus

Gaulocrinus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 351.9 Mya and 339.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 9 of 9 occurrencesCarboniferous352–352 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences351–351 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences350–350 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences349–349 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences349–349 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences348–348 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences347–347 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences346–346 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences345–345 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences345–345 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences344–344 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences343–343 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences343–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences341–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences340–340 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences352.4 Mya339.4 Mya

9 occurrences of Gaulocrinus 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

9 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

3 formations

Fort Payne — 36.71°N, 85.48°WFort Payne — 36.94°N, 85.01°WFort Payne — 36.54°N, 85.13°WFort Payne — 35.12°N, 87.44°WFort Payne Chert — 36.86°N, 85.13°WBorden — 38.08°N, 85.71°W

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The named rock units Gaulocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Gaulocrinus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Gaulocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

56 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Gaulocrinus, 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

3 references

Each of the 9 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 content1

Picture of Gaulocrinus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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.

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What may have been alongside itGaulocrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.