Nunnacrinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CactocrininaePBDB
- 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 most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 342.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Nunnacrinus 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
16 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Nunnacrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nunnacrinus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Nunnacrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Steganocrinus pentagonus13 sites
- Agaricocrinus planoconvexus12 sites
- Physetocrinus copei12 sites
- Plemnocrinus homalus11 sites
- Plemnocrinus bullatus10 sites
- Cribanocrinus urceolatus8 sites
- Displodocrinus divergens8 sites
- Physetocrinus lobatus8 sites
- Ancalocrinus spinobrachiatus7 sites
- Blairocrinus macurdai7 sites
- Elegantocrinus7 sites
- Aryballocrinus whitei6 sites
- Platycrinites peculiaris6 sites
- Cactocrinus proboscidialis5 sites
- Pleurocrinus quinquenodus5 sites
- Dichocrinus conus4 sites
- Iotacrinus novamexicanus4 sites
- Platycrinites parvinodus4 sites
- Rhodocrinites tuberculatus4 sites
- Amphoracrinus rupinus3 sites
- Cusacrinus tenuisculptus3 sites
- Eucladocrinus pleurovimenus3 sites
- Abatocrinus clypeatus2 sites
- Actinocrinus tenuidiscus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Nunnacrinus, 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
2 references- Camerate crinoids from the Nunn Member (Tournaisian, Osagean) of the Lower Mississippian Lake Valley Formation, New Mexico15
- Lower Mississipian crinoid (Echinodermata) fauna from Utah County, Utah1
Each of the 16 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Nunnacrinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Nunnacrinus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itCactocrininae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bowsher 1955