Melocrinites

Melocrinites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MelocrinitidaePBDB
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 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 375.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Silurian — about 9 of 19 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 10 of 19 occurrencesDevonian434–432 Mya — about 1 occurrence432–430 Mya — about 3 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 2 occurrences428–426 Mya — about 2 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 1 occurrence424–421 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–388 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences388–386 Mya — about 2 occurrences386–384 Mya — about 2 occurrences384–381 Mya — about 1 occurrence381–379 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences379–377 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences377–375 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences375–373 Mya — about 2 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences430.6 Mya375.2 Mya434 Mya371 Mya

19 occurrences of Melocrinites 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

19 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

12 formations

Loogh — 50.24°N, 6.71°ELoogh — 50.31°N, 6.71°ERacine — 42.00°N, 88.00°WRacine — 41.85°N, 87.65°WLaurel Limestone — 39.43°N, 85.63°WMiddle Loogh — 50.22°N, 6.65°ERacine Dolomite — 41.57°N, 87.60°WOsgood Shale — 39.13°N, 85.30°WBeaulieu — 50.83°N, 1.77°EVirgin Hills — 18.74°S, 126.08°EPapilio — 19.00°S, 145.00°ELittle Cedar — 42.00°N, 91.00°WMuch Wenlock — 52.50°N, 2.08°WBüdesheim — 50.19°N, 6.51°E

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The named rock units Melocrinites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Melocrinites and its relatives

Devonian

Where Melocrinites and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

255 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Melocrinites, 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

8 references

Each of the 19 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 Melocrinites

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iDigBio
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMelocrinitidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Goldfuss 1831