Pleurocrinus quinquenodus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PleurocrinusPBDB
- 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.
5 occurrences of Pleurocrinus quinquenodus 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
5 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 Pleurocrinus quinquenodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pleurocrinus quinquenodus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Pleurocrinus quinquenodus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Agaricocrinus planoconvexus5 sites
- Displodocrinus divergens5 sites
- Elegantocrinus5 sites
- Nunnacrinus dalyanus5 sites
- Physetocrinus copei5 sites
- Physetocrinus lobatus5 sites
- Steganocrinus pentagonus5 sites
- Cactocrinus proboscidialis4 sites
- Plemnocrinus bullatus4 sites
- Plemnocrinus homalus4 sites
- Ancalocrinus spinobrachiatus3 sites
- Blairocrinus macurdai3 sites
- Cribanocrinus urceolatus3 sites
- Eucladocrinus pleurovimenus3 sites
- Platycrinites peculiaris3 sites
- Rhodocrinites tuberculatus3 sites
- Abatocrinus clypeatus2 sites
- Amphoracrinus rupinus2 sites
- Aryballocrinus whitei2 sites
- Collicrinus shumardi2 sites
- Cusacrinus tenuisculptus2 sites
- Dichocrinus conus2 sites
- Eretmocrinus2 sites
- Iotacrinus novamexicanus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pleurocrinus quinquenodus, 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 5 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 Pleurocrinus quinquenodus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pleurocrinus quinquenodus 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 itPleurocrinus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (White 1862)