Pisocrinidae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PisocrinidaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Disparida
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Disparida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Disparida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At least 155 million years on record.
The record covers at least 445.2 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 283.3 Mya.
121 occurrences of Pisocrinidae on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
121 occurrences- Ordovician2%
- Silurian61%
- Devonian33%
- Carboniferous2%
- Permian2%
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
50 formations
- Racine Formation9
- Bainbridge Limestone Formation7
- Henryhouse Formation6
- Lochkov Formation6
- Virgin Hills Formation6
- Scotch Grove Formation5
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The named rock units Pisocrinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pisocrinidae and its relatives
SilurianWhere Pisocrinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
1,338 taxa- Pisocrinus54 sites
- Bryozoa34 sites
- Favosites22 sites
- Rugosa21 sites
- Atrypa20 sites
- Crinoidea20 sites
- Dicoelosia19 sites
- Eucalyptocrinites19 sites
- Isorthis19 sites
- Astraeospongium17 sites
- Meristina16 sites
- Myelodactylus16 sites
- Nautiloidea16 sites
- Gastropoda15 sites
- Lecanocrinus15 sites
- Dalmanites14 sites
- Brachiopoda13 sites
- Leangella13 sites
- Macrostylocrinus13 sites
- Nucleospira13 sites
- Parapisocrinus13 sites
- Skenidioides13 sites
- Thalamocrinus13 sites
- Atrypa reticularis12 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 93 sites for Pisocrinidae, 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
37 references- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America32
- The stratigraphical distribution of Devonian crinoids in the Barrandian area (Czechoslovakia)9
- Crinoids, a blastoid, and a cyclocystoid from the Upper Devonian reef complex of the Canning Basin, Western Australia8
- Guild structure and tiering in a high-diversity Silurian community, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin8
- British Upper Silurian crinoids from the Ludlovian6
- Australian communities5
- Pflanzen im Hunsrueckschiefer5
- Silurian Reefs of Gotland4
- Survey of echinoderms and a new ophiocistioid Branzoviella talpa gen. et sp. n. (Echinodermata, Ophiocistioidea) in the Lower Devonian, Lochkov Formation of the Barrandian area, Czech Republic3
- Silurian and Early Devonian benthic communities of the Ural-Tien Shan region3
- Silurian brachiopod and related benthic communities from carbonate platform and mound environments of Iowa and surrounding areas3
- Paleoecology and Petrology of Pipe Creek Jr. Reef (Niagaran-Cayugan), Grant County, Indiana3
Each of the 121 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. 25 further references are not listed. 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 content0
No picture of Pisocrinidae 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 Pisocrinidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pisocrinidae 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 itPisocrinida through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Angelin 1878