Nipterocrinus
No picture of Nipterocrinus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Nipterocrinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NipterocrinidaePBDB
- 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 5.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 351.9 Mya to 346.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 339.9 Mya.
10 occurrences of Nipterocrinus 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
10 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Nipterocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nipterocrinus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Nipterocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
247 taxa- Platycrinites10 sites
- Agaricocrinus8 sites
- Barycrinus8 sites
- Halysiocrinus8 sites
- Synbathocrinus8 sites
- Catillocrinus7 sites
- Cyathocrinites7 sites
- Eretmocrinus magnificus6 sites
- Onychocrinus6 sites
- Paradichocrinus6 sites
- Actinocrinites5 sites
- Amplexizaphrentis5 sites
- Cheilotrypa5 sites
- Dichocrinus5 sites
- Fenestella5 sites
- Fistulipora5 sites
- Phractopora5 sites
- Alloprosallocrinus conicus4 sites
- Amplexus4 sites
- Cladochonus4 sites
- Cleiothyridina4 sites
- Cyathocrinites multibrachiatus4 sites
- Cystodictya4 sites
- Dielasma4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Nipterocrinus, 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
6 references- Community Organization, Paleontology, and Sedimentology of the Lower Mississippian Borden Delta Platform (Edwardsville Formation, Southern Indiana)3
- Crinoidea Flexibilia (Echinodermata) from the Fort Payne Formation (Lower Mississippian; Kentucky and Tennessee)2
- Fossil communities of the Borden (Mississippi) delta in Indiana and northern Kentucky2
- Crinoid assemblages from the Fort Payne Formation (late Osagean, early Viséan, Mississippian) from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama1
- Mississippian crinoid fauna from the Banff Formation, Sunwapta Pass, Alberta1
- Bibliographic and faunal index of Paleozoic pelmatozoan echinoderms1
Each of the 10 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 Nipterocrinus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Nipterocrinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nipterocrinus 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 itNipterocrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.