Paleocrinus angulatus
No picture of Paleocrinus angulatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Paleocrinus angulatus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Paleocrinus angulatus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Decorah Shale Formation1
- Guttenberg Formation · Galena Group1
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The named rock units Paleocrinus angulatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paleocrinus angulatus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Paleocrinus angulatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Agelacrinites2 sites
- Amecystis woodi2 sites
- Archaeocrinus2 sites
- Ateleocystites2 sites
- Carabocrinus2 sites
- Cincinnaticrinus varibrachialus2 sites
- Cremacrinus2 sites
- Cremacrinus guttenbergensis2 sites
- Cupulocrinus jewetti2 sites
- Cupulocrinus levorsoni2 sites
- Cyclocystoides2 sites
- Dendrocrinus2 sites
- Hemicystites2 sites
- Pegoasterella pompom2 sites
- Periglyptocrinus2 sites
- Pleurocystites squamosus2 sites
- Porocrinus2 sites
- Pycnocrinus2 sites
- Reteocrinus2 sites
- Willmanocystis2 sites
- Cupulocrinus canaliculatus1 site
- Cupulocrinus humilis1 site
- Glyptocrinus1 site
- Grenprisa billingsi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Paleocrinus angulatus, 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 referenceEach of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Paleocrinus angulatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Paleocrinus angulatus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
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 itFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.