Paracolocrinus
No picture of Paracolocrinus 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 Paracolocrinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcolocrinidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Disparida
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Disparida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Disparida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Paracolocrinus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
3 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
3 formations
- Rochester Shale Formation · Clinton Group1
- Rochester Formation1
- Osgood Shale Formation1
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The named rock units Paracolocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paracolocrinus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Paracolocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
141 taxa- Eohalysiocrinus3 sites
- Lecanocrinus3 sites
- Macrostylocrinus3 sites
- Anastrophia2 sites
- Asaphocrinus2 sites
- Atrypa reticularis2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Callocystites2 sites
- Catatonocrinus2 sites
- Charactocrinus pustulosus2 sites
- Cheirocrinus chrysalis2 sites
- Craniops2 sites
- Crinobrachiatus2 sites
- Cupulocorona gemmiformis2 sites
- Dalejina hybrida2 sites
- Dalmanites2 sites
- Dawsonoceras2 sites
- Dimerocrinites2 sites
- Eospirifer radiatus2 sites
- Eucalyptocrinites2 sites
- Fardenia (Coolinia)2 sites
- Favosites2 sites
- Flexibilia2 sites
- Howellella (Howellella) crispa2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Paracolocrinus, 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- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America2
- Wenlockian fossil communities in New York State and adjacent areas: Paleontology and Paleoecology1
Each of the 3 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 Paracolocrinus 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 Paracolocrinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paracolocrinus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAcolocrinidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brett 1980