Quienquecaudex springeri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- QuinquecaudexPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Flexibilia
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Flexibilia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Flexibilia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Quienquecaudex springeri on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
11 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
6 formations
- Dunleith Formation · Galena Group5
- Wise Lake Formation · Galena Group2
- Platteville Formation1
- Prosser Limestone Formation1
- Stewartville Formation1
- Spechts Ferry Formation1
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The named rock units Quienquecaudex springeri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Quienquecaudex springeri and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Quienquecaudex springeri and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
75 taxa- Cremacrinus10 sites
- Cupulocrinus10 sites
- Carabocrinus9 sites
- Tanaocystis8 sites
- Ectenocrinus simplex7 sites
- Edrioaster bigsbyi7 sites
- Porocrinus7 sites
- Rhaphanocrinus7 sites
- Carabocrinus radiatus6 sites
- Cremacrinus guttenbergensis6 sites
- Dendrocrinus6 sites
- Glyptocrinus6 sites
- <Cincinnaticrinid>5 sites
- Abludoglyptocrinus charltoni5 sites
- Cyclocystoides5 sites
- Cyclocystoides halli5 sites
- Glyptocystites5 sites
- Hybocrinus conicus5 sites
- Merocrinus5 sites
- Pleurocystites strimplei5 sites
- Ptychocrinus5 sites
- Pycnocrinus5 sites
- Abludoglyptocrinus4 sites
- Abludoglyptocrinus ornatus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Quienquecaudex springeri, 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
2 references- Upper Mississippi Valley Champlainian and Cincinnatian echinoderms10
- Paleoecology of Echinoderm Assemblages from the Upper Ordovician (Katian) Dunleith Formation of Northern Iowa and Southern Minnesota1
Each of the 11 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 content0
No picture of Quienquecaudex springeri was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Quienquecaudex springeri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itQuinquecaudex through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kolata 1975)