Platycrinites peculiaris
Baldwin, Blanchard & Keyte · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlatycrinitesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Monobathrida
- Life habit
- upper-level epifaunalPBDB, for Monobathrida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Monobathrida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 351.9 Mya and 342.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Platycrinites peculiaris 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
6 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
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The named rock units Platycrinites peculiaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Platycrinites peculiaris and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Platycrinites peculiaris and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Agaricocrinus planoconvexus6 sites
- Nunnacrinus dalyanus6 sites
- Physetocrinus copei6 sites
- Plemnocrinus bullatus6 sites
- Plemnocrinus homalus6 sites
- Displodocrinus divergens5 sites
- Elegantocrinus5 sites
- Steganocrinus pentagonus5 sites
- Ancalocrinus spinobrachiatus4 sites
- Blairocrinus macurdai4 sites
- Cribanocrinus urceolatus4 sites
- Physetocrinus lobatus4 sites
- Rhodocrinites tuberculatus4 sites
- Aryballocrinus whitei3 sites
- Cactocrinus proboscidialis3 sites
- Dichocrinus conus3 sites
- Eucladocrinus pleurovimenus3 sites
- Platycrinites parvinodus3 sites
- Pleurocrinus quinquenodus3 sites
- Actinocrinus tenuidiscus2 sites
- Amphoracrinus rupinus2 sites
- Collicrinus shumardi2 sites
- Cusacrinus tenuisculptus2 sites
- Eucladocrinus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Platycrinites peculiaris, 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
1 referenceEach of the 6 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Platycrinites peculiaris
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Baldwin, Blanchard & Keyte
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Platycrinites peculiaris was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPlatycrinites through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wachsmuth and Springer 1897)