Shroshaecrinus quedlinburgensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ShroshaecrinusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Millericrinida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Millericrinida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Millericrinida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 182.9 Mya and 170.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Shroshaecrinus quedlinburgensis on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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 occurrencesThese 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 Shroshaecrinus quedlinburgensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Shroshaecrinus quedlinburgensis and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Shroshaecrinus quedlinburgensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Praetetracrinus kutscheri4 sites
- Mesophiomusium geisingense2 sites
- Mesophiomusium scabrum2 sites
- Ophiacantha dorecki2 sites
- Ophiacantha toarcensis2 sites
- Ophiarachna liasica2 sites
- Ophiocten seeweni2 sites
- Ophiopetra oertlii2 sites
- Ophiotrapezium spinulosum2 sites
- Ophiura astonensis2 sites
- Praetetracrinus inornatus2 sites
- Sigsbeia lunaris2 sites
- Sinosura brodiei2 sites
- Sinosura schneideri2 sites
- Ophiopholis trispinosa1 site
- Plicatocrinidae1 site
- Praetetracrinus doreckae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Shroshaecrinus quedlinburgensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Shroshaecrinus quedlinburgensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Shroshaecrinus quedlinburgensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Shroshaecrinus quedlinburgensis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itShroshaecrinus through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jäger 1995