Phacelocrinus

Phacelocrinus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 6.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.9 Mya to 318.6 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 26 of 26 occurrencesCarboniferous336–336 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 2 occurrences335–335 Mya — about 2 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 2 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 2 occurrences333–333 Mya — about 2 occurrences333–332 Mya — about 2 occurrences332–332 Mya — about 2 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 2 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 2 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330.3 Mya323.4 Mya336.4 Mya318.1 Mya

26 occurrences of Phacelocrinus 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

26 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

4 formations

Bangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WBangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WBloyd — 35.62°N, 95.17°WGlen Dean Limestone — 37.87°N, 86.62°WMorrow — 35.83°N, 95.23°W

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The named rock units Phacelocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Phacelocrinus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Phacelocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

140 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Phacelocrinus, 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

Each of the 26 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 Phacelocrinus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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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 itScytalocrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kirk 1940