Ristnacrinus
via iDigBio · CC0 · via iDigBio. 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
- IocrinidaePBDB
- 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 8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 456.8 Mya to 448.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
55 occurrences of Ristnacrinus 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
55 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
16 formations
- Kahula Formation5
- Aluvere Formation5
- Madise Formation4
- Pagari Formation3
- Keila Formation3
- Keisley Limestone Formation · Dent Group2
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Ristnacrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ristnacrinus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ristnacrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
258 taxa- Virucrinus kegelensis27 sites
- Mastopora concava22 sites
- Saukrodictya21 sites
- Onniella17 sites
- Porambonites16 sites
- Cremnorthis15 sites
- Sowerbyella15 sites
- Orthisocrania14 sites
- Schizocrinus13 sites
- Neoplatystrophia lynx12 sites
- Baltocrinus sp.11 sites
- Bilobia musca10 sites
- Hemicosmites10 sites
- Cornulites9 sites
- Cyrtonotella9 sites
- Pyritonema9 sites
- Trigonocyclicus vajgatschensis8 sites
- Vellamo8 sites
- Crinoidea7 sites
- Cyclocyclicus7 sites
- Platystrophia dentata6 sites
- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) trivia6 sites
- Echinosphaerites5 sites
- Hoplocrinus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Ristnacrinus, 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
13 references- Lithology and Fauna of the Caradoc series type sections in North Estonia20
- New data on the distribution of brachiopods in the Johvi Stage of North Estonia11
- Ramseyocrinus and Ristnacrinus from the Ordovician of Britain6
- The Subdivision of the Ordovician in the Berzini boring (South-East Latvia)4
- Iocrinid Crinoids from the Ordovician of the Baltic Region, Estonia2
- Age, facies, and geometry of the Sandbian/Katian (Upper Ordovician) pelmatozoan-bryozoan-receptaculitid reefs of the Vasalemma Formation, northern Estonia2
- Échinodermes de l’Ordovicien supérieur (Ashgill) de Sardaigne et d’Algérie2
- Ristnacrinus and the oldest myelodactylid from the Ashgill Boda Limestone of Sweden2
- Sur quelques echinodermes (Cystoides et crinoides) de l' Ashgil d'Aragon (Espagne)2
- A Kralodvorian (upper Katian, Upper Ordovician) benthic association from the Ferradosa Formation (central Portugal) and its significance for the redefinition and subdivision of the Kralodvorian Stage1
- Oandu stage (Caradoc) in central North Estonia1
- Locality 2 : 4 Ristna Cliff1
Each of the 55 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. 1 further reference is 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 content1
Picture of Ristnacrinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ristnacrinus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itIocrinidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Opik 1934