Protencrinus

Protencrinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtencrinidaePBDB
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 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 315.2 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 283.3 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 5 occurrencesPermian324–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences319–317 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences298–296 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315.2 Mya290.1 Mya324.2 Mya282.5 Mya

5 occurrences of Protencrinus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

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

Atoka — 34.55°N, 96.43°WAtoka — 34.53°N, 96.47°WFodele — 35.41°N, 24.78°ETaiyuan — 36.08°N, 114.11°ETrogkofel Limestone — 46.47°N, 13.97°E

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

Protencrinus and its relatives

Permian

Where Protencrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

48 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Protencrinus, 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

4 references

Each 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. 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 Protencrinus

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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Protencrinus 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 itProtencrinidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jeakel 1918