Heliocrinus fiscella
No picture of Heliocrinus fiscella was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Heliocrinus fiscella firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 458.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Heliocrinus fiscella 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Heliocrinus fiscella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Heliocrinus fiscella and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Heliocrinus fiscella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Orthoceras2 sites
- Ovocystis mansuyi2 sites
- ? Pyrocystis orientalis1 site
- Cameroceras1 site
- Carycosystis bicompressa1 site
- Dideroceras wahlenbergi1 site
- Endoceras1 site
- Eucystis raripunctata1 site
- Harpes1 site
- Heliocrinus aff. fiscella1 site
- Heliocrinus cf. balticus1 site
- Heliocrinus subovalis1 site
- Hemipronites1 site
- Holopea1 site
- Illaenus1 site
- Lituites1 site
- Ogygites1 site
- Orthis1 site
- Pachydictya1 site
- Plectambonites1 site
- Rafinesquina1 site
- Scyphocrinites1 site
- Sinocystis1 site
- Sinocystis loczyi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Heliocrinus fiscella, 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
1 referenceEach 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.
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No picture of Heliocrinus fiscella was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Heliocrinus fiscella firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Heliocrinus fiscella 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.