Graffhamicrinus boellstorffi

No picture of Graffhamicrinus boellstorffi 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 Graffhamicrinus boellstorffi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GraffhamicrinusPBDB
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 least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 264.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 3 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences262–260 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences258–256 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences256–254 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298.9 Mya264.9 Mya305 Mya251 Mya

3 occurrences of Graffhamicrinus boellstorffi on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

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

Foraker Limestone — 40.39°N, 95.85°WForaker Limestone — 41.05°N, 95.72°WForaker — 40.45°N, 96.02°W

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

Graffhamicrinus boellstorffi and its relatives

Permian

Where Graffhamicrinus boellstorffi and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

4 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Graffhamicrinus boellstorffi, 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

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

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No picture of Graffhamicrinus boellstorffi 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 Graffhamicrinus boellstorffi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Graffhamicrinus boellstorffi 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 itGraffhamicrinus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pabian and Strimple 1974