Phanocrinus

Phanocrinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArticuliformesPBDB
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 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 339.9 Mya to 283.3 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 59 of 60 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 60 occurrencesPermian341–339 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences337–335 Mya — about 7 occurrences335–333 Mya — about 18 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 18 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 10 occurrences329–327 Mya — about 3 occurrences327–325 Mya — about 1 occurrence325–323 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences288–286 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences286–284 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335.9 Mya290.1 Mya341 Mya282 Mya

60 occurrences of Phanocrinus 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

60 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

8 formations

Bangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WBangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WLower Limestone — 56.10°N, 3.18°WLower Limestone — 56.12°N, 3.47°WLower Limestone — 55.78°N, 3.33°WLower Limestone — 55.08°N, 2.90°WLower Limestone — 56.05°N, 3.40°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.37°N, 86.62°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.10°N, 86.56°WGlen Dean Limestone — 37.83°N, 86.62°WNewman — 36.53°N, 83.22°WNewman — 37.91°N, 83.86°WMonteagle Limestone — 34.63°N, 86.55°WFayetteville — 36.65°N, 95.07°WBird Spring — 36.70°N, 114.42°WPittenweem — 56.20°N, 2.80°W

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

Phanocrinus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Phanocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

219 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Phanocrinus, 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

8 references

Each of the 60 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Phanocrinus

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 itArticuliformes through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kirk 1937