Microcaracrinus conjugulus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MicrocaracrinusPBDB
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 2.3 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 306 Mya and 303.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous306–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306.5 Mya303.2 Mya

1 occurrence of Microcaracrinus conjugulus 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

1 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

1 formation

Bond — 40.78°N, 88.68°W

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

Microcaracrinus conjugulus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Microcaracrinus conjugulus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

36 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Microcaracrinus conjugulus, 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 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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.

Media and terms

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No picture of Microcaracrinus conjugulus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Microcaracrinus conjugulus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itMicrocaracrinus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Strimple and Moore 1971