Passalocrinus

No picture of Passalocrinus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Passalocrinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BlastoideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Blastoidea
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Blastoidea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Blastoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Blastoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 80 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 346.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 330.3 Mya.

Silurian — about 5 of 13 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 13 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 8 of 13 occurrencesCarboniferous435–431 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences431–428 Mya — about 2 occurrences428–424 Mya — about 1 occurrence424–421 Mya — about 1 occurrence421–417 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences360–357 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences357–353 Mya — about 2 occurrences353–350 Mya — about 2 occurrences350–346 Mya — about 1 occurrence346–342 Mya — about 1 occurrence342–339 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences339–335 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences335–332 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences332–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426.7 Mya346.7 Mya435 Mya328 Mya

13 occurrences of Passalocrinus 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

13 occurrences

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

10 formations

Borden — 36.44°N, 88.06°WFern Glen — 38.33°N, 90.37°WFern Glen — 38.08°N, 90.22°WNew Albany Shale — 38.48°N, 85.75°WRockford Limestone — 38.48°N, 85.75°WLaurel — 39.50°N, 85.47°WWayne — 35.38°N, 88.00°WBainbridge Limestone — 37.80°N, 90.05°WHenryhouse — 34.37°N, 97.00°WWaldron Shale — 39.45°N, 85.67°WChouteau — 38.78°N, 92.43°W

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The named rock units Passalocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Passalocrinus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Passalocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

332 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Passalocrinus, 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

5 references

Each of the 13 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 Passalocrinus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Passalocrinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Passalocrinus 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 itBlastoidea through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Peck 1936