Glyptocrinus

Glyptocrinus is an extinct genus of sea lily that lived from the Middle Ordovician to the Early Silurian. Its remains have been found in North America.

Glyptocrinus

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GlyptocrinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
upper-level epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 438.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 168 of 176 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 8 of 176 occurrencesSilurian472–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 1 occurrence457–456 Mya — about 4 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 4 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 4 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 4 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 4 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 27 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 72 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 15 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 15 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 14 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 2 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 2 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 2 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 1 occurrence439–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458.2 Mya443.1 Mya472 Mya437.4 Mya

176 occurrences of Glyptocrinus 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

176 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

32 formations

Fairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WFairview — 39.03°N, 84.51°WFairview — 39.30°N, 84.40°WFairview — 38.68°N, 83.79°WSunset — 39.33°N, 84.07°WSunset — 38.49°N, 83.76°WSunset — 39.34°N, 84.39°WSunset — 39.37°N, 84.39°WSunset — 39.54°N, 84.34°WSunset — 39.41°N, 84.50°WSunset — 39.13°N, 84.62°WSunset — 38.61°N, 83.77°WSunset — 39.03°N, 83.85°WMount Auburn — 38.87°N, 83.91°WMount Auburn — 39.33°N, 84.07°WMount Auburn — 38.50°N, 83.76°WCorryville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WCorryville — 39.17°N, 84.12°WCorryville — 39.30°N, 84.40°WCorryville — 38.68°N, 83.79°WCorryville — 39.33°N, 84.07°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WDunleith — 42.45°N, 89.08°WOregonia — 39.22°N, 84.08°WOregonia — 39.54°N, 84.34°WOregonia — 39.13°N, 84.60°WOregonia — 39.33°N, 84.07°WOregonia — 39.03°N, 83.85°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WKope — 38.68°N, 83.79°WKope — 38.43°N, 83.99°WKope — 39.04°N, 84.53°WBecscie — 49.82°N, 64.35°WBecscie — 49.42°N, 62.25°WBull Fork — 38.40°N, 83.72°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 39.48°N, 84.07°WWaynesville — 38.77°N, 85.36°WCummingsville — 44.50°N, 92.90°WCummingsville — 44.00°N, 92.00°WDecorah Shale — 44.98°N, 93.27°WDecorah Shale — 44.00°N, 92.00°WBellevue — 39.17°N, 84.12°WBellevue — 38.68°N, 83.79°WKings Falls — 43.21°N, 75.46°WLeipers — 35.50°N, 86.50°WGrant Lake — 39.25°N, 84.25°WGrant Lake — 38.67°N, 83.82°WProsser Limestone — 44.00°N, 92.00°WIon — 42.00°N, 90.50°WBobcaygeon — 44.67°N, 78.80°WBobcaygeon — 44.53°N, 78.55°WWhitewater — 39.48°N, 84.06°WCalloway Creek — 37.46°N, 84.82°WMiamitown — 39.30°N, 84.40°WMoyerokan — 67.34°N, 104.10°EKhaastyrka — 67.35°N, 104.04°EKhaastyrka — 67.32°N, 103.85°E

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The named rock units Glyptocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed.

Glyptocrinus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Glyptocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

750 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 164 sites for Glyptocrinus, 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

17 references

Each of the 176 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. 5 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Glyptocrinus

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itGlyptocrinidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1847