Granatocrinus granulatus

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- GranatocrinusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Blastoidea
- 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.
9 occurrences of Granatocrinus granulatus 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- 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Granatocrinus granulatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Granatocrinus granulatus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Granatocrinus granulatus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
76 taxa- Synbathocrinus7 sites
- Agaricocrinus6 sites
- Alloprosallocrinus conicus6 sites
- Barycrinus6 sites
- Eretmocrinus magnificus6 sites
- Halysiocrinus6 sites
- Platycrinites6 sites
- Actinocrinites5 sites
- Barycrinus spurius5 sites
- Catillocrinus5 sites
- Cyathocrinites iowensis5 sites
- Macrocrinus5 sites
- Abatocrinus grandis4 sites
- Deliablastus cumberlandensis4 sites
- Eucladocrinus4 sites
- Gilbertsocrinus tuberosus4 sites
- Magnuscrinus praegravis4 sites
- Uperocrinus nashvillae4 sites
- Xyeleblastus magnificus4 sites
- Barycrinus rhombiferus3 sites
- Costalocrinus cornutus3 sites
- Cyathocrinites multibrachiatus3 sites
- Eretmocrinus ramulosus3 sites
- Holcocrinus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Granatocrinus granulatus, 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
4 references- Crinoid assemblages from the Fort Payne Formation (late Osagean, early Viséan, Mississippian) from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama5
- A new occurrence of Granatocrinus granulatus (Roemer) from the Payne Chert of Alabama2
- Fort Payne carbonate facies (Mississippian) of south-central Kentucky1
- Stratigraphy of New Providence Formatin (Mississippian) in Jefferson and Bullitt Counties, Kentucky, and fauna of the Coral Ridge Member1
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 Granatocrinus granulatus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Granatocrinus granulatus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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 itGranatocrinus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Romer 1851)