Goleocrinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CromyocrinidaePBDB
- 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 38 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 323.4 Mya and 286 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Goleocrinus 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
3 occurrences- Carboniferous89%
- Permian11%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Goleocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Goleocrinus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Goleocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Aesiocrinus secundus1 site
- Aglaocrinus magnus1 site
- Archaeocidaris1 site
- Cymbiocrinus anatonus1 site
- Cymbiocrinus cuneatus1 site
- Dicromyocrinus1 site
- Endelocrinus matheri1 site
- Globocrinus bulbus1 site
- Hypselocrinus cavus1 site
- Hypselocrinus defendus1 site
- Hypselocrinus superus1 site
- Palmerocrinus profundus1 site
- Synarmocrinus1 site
- Synarmocrinus depressus1 site
- Ulocrinus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Goleocrinus, 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- The first Pennsylvanian batocrinid and other new echinoderms from the Minturn Formation of central Colorado1
- Lower Pennsylvanian (Morrowan) crinoids from Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas1
- Early Pennsylvanian crinoids from the south central Wasatch Mountains of central Utah1
Each of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Goleocrinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Goleocrinus 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 itCromyocrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Strimple and Watkins 1969