Mespilocrinus

Mespilocrinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MespilocrinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Sagenocrinida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Sagenocrinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Sagenocrinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 342.9 Mya to 335.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 351.9 Mya to 330.3 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 15 of 15 occurrencesCarboniferous352–352 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences349–349 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences346–346 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences343–343 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences343–342 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences340–340 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences334–334 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences333–332 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences331–331 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences342.9 Mya335.9 Mya352.4 Mya329.8 Mya

15 occurrences of Mespilocrinus 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

15 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

5 formations

Fort Payne — 36.71°N, 85.48°WFort Payne — 36.94°N, 85.01°WFort Payne — 36.72°N, 85.37°WFort Payne — 36.54°N, 85.13°WLower Limestone — 56.10°N, 3.18°WLower Limestone — 55.78°N, 3.33°WFort Payne Chert — 36.71°N, 85.37°WFort Payne Chert — 36.95°N, 84.98°WBorden — 37.70°N, 85.87°WFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°W

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

Mespilocrinus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Mespilocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

97 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Mespilocrinus, 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

5 references

Each of the 15 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 Mespilocrinus

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

No 3D scan of Mespilocrinus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itMespilocrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.