Logocrinus geniculatus
No picture of Logocrinus geniculatus 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 Logocrinus geniculatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LogocrinusPBDB
- 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 61 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 358.86 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Logocrinus geniculatus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
2 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
- Ludlowville Formation1
- Moscow Formation · Hamilton Group1
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The named rock units Logocrinus geniculatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Logocrinus geniculatus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Logocrinus geniculatus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Arthracantha ithacensis1 site
- Cyttarocrinus1 site
- Decadocrinus1 site
- Eutaxocrinus whiteavesi1 site
- Gilbertsocrinus rarispinus1 site
- Synaptocrinus1 site
- Zostocrinus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Logocrinus geniculatus, 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- The Occurrence and Paleoecology of Echinoderm Asseblages in the Ludlowville Shales (Middle Devonian) of western Erie County, New York1
- Some Hamilton (Devonian) crinoids from New York1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Logocrinus geniculatus 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 Logocrinus geniculatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Logocrinus geniculatus 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 itLogocrinus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Goldring 1923