Paradiabolocrinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhodocrinitidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Diplobathrida
- Life habit
- upper-level epifaunalPBDB, for Diplobathrida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Diplobathrida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 8.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Paradiabolocrinus 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
3 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Paradiabolocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paradiabolocrinus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Paradiabolocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Archaeocrinus2 sites
- Astrocystites2 sites
- Carabocrinus2 sites
- Cyathocystis2 sites
- Oklahomacystis2 sites
- Abludoglyptocrinus1 site
- Acolocrinus1 site
- Archaeocrinus sundayae1 site
- Astroidea indet.1 site
- Bistomiacystis schrantzi1 site
- Bromidocystis1 site
- Cleiocrinus1 site
- Colpodecrinus1 site
- Cremacrinus1 site
- Cyclocystoides1 site
- Diabolocrinus1 site
- Echinosphaerites aurantium1 site
- Edrioaster bigsbyi1 site
- Edriophus1 site
- Foerstediscus1 site
- Glyptocystella1 site
- Hybocrinus1 site
- Hybocrinus conicus1 site
- Implicaticystis shumardi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Paradiabolocrinus, 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
3 references- A new species of Paradiabolocrinus from the Upper Ordovician of central Kentucky, USA1
- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America1
- Echinoderm zones and faunas1
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
Media content1
Picture of Paradiabolocrinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Paradiabolocrinus 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 itRhodocrinitidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brower and Veinus 1974