Pararchaeocrinus
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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 least 900 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 457.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 449.6 Mya.
4 occurrences of Pararchaeocrinus 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
4 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
1 formation
- Bromide Formation · Simpson Group4
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The named rock units Pararchaeocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pararchaeocrinus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Pararchaeocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Anthracocrinus primitivus3 sites
- Archaeocrinus3 sites
- Calceocrinus3 sites
- Cyathocystis3 sites
- Diabolocrinus3 sites
- Hybocrinus3 sites
- Acolocrinus2 sites
- Anatiferocystis papillata2 sites
- Anulocrinus2 sites
- Myeinocystites natus2 sites
- Peltacrinus2 sites
- Penicillicrinus2 sites
- Porocrinus2 sites
- Praepleurocystis watkinsi2 sites
- Quadrocystis graffhami2 sites
- Unibothriocidaris2 sites
- <Rhodocrinid>1 site
- Abludoglyptocrinus1 site
- Anatifopsis1 site
- Anthracocrinus1 site
- Bothriocidaris1 site
- Carabocrinus1 site
- Cleiocrinus1 site
- Cremacrinus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pararchaeocrinus, 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
4 referencesEach of the 4 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 Pararchaeocrinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itRhodocrinitidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Strimple and Watkins 1955