Macrocrinus

Macrocrinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BatocrinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Monobathrida
Life habit
upper-level epifaunalPBDB, for Monobathrida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Monobathrida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 3.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 342.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 335.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 41 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 41 of 41 occurrencesCarboniferous359–359 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences359–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences355–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–353 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 1 occurrence351–350 Mya — about 2 occurrences350–350 Mya — about 2 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 2 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 2 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 2 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 3 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 4 occurrences345–345 Mya — about 4 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 4 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 4 occurrences343–342 Mya — about 3 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 3 occurrences341–341 Mya — about 3 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 2 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences339–338 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences338–337 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences337–337 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences346.7 Mya342.9 Mya359.4 Mya334.9 Mya

41 occurrences of Macrocrinus 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

41 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

8 formations

Fort Payne — 36.95°N, 85.01°WFort Payne — 36.75°N, 85.15°WFort Payne — 36.94°N, 85.01°WFort Payne — 36.78°N, 85.10°WFort Payne — 36.72°N, 85.37°WFort Payne — 36.50°N, 85.14°WFort Payne — 36.56°N, 85.21°WEdwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.25°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.25°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WKeokuk Limestone — 40.40°N, 91.34°WKeokuk Limestone — 40.40°N, 91.38°WKeokuk Limestone — 39.91°N, 91.61°WKeokuk Limestone — 38.97°N, 92.73°WKeokuk Limestone — 38.98°N, 90.98°WKeokuk Limestone — 37.86°N, 90.00°WFort Payne Chert — 36.92°N, 84.96°WFort Payne Chert — 36.95°N, 84.98°WFort Payne Chert — 36.86°N, 85.13°WFort Payne Chert — 36.71°N, 85.37°WMuldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WBorden — 37.70°N, 85.87°WBorden — 38.29°N, 83.32°WBorden — 38.28°N, 83.38°WWarsaw — 38.55°N, 90.49°WSalem Limestone — 37.31°N, 85.44°W

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

Macrocrinus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Macrocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

326 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Macrocrinus, 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

9 references

Each of the 41 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 content2

Picture of Macrocrinus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access 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 itBatocrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jaekel 1895