Taxocrinus

Taxocrinus

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
TaxocrinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Taxocrinida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Taxocrinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Taxocrinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 91 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 335.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 323.4 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 38 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 5 of 38 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 32 of 38 occurrencesCarboniferous435–431 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences431–427 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences427–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–386 Mya — about 1 occurrence378–374 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences374–371 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences371–367 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences367–363 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences363–359 Mya — about 1 occurrence359–355 Mya — about 2 occurrences355–352 Mya — about 2 occurrences352–348 Mya — about 1 occurrence348–344 Mya — about 10 occurrences344–340 Mya — about 14 occurrences340–336 Mya — about 1 occurrence336–333 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences333–329 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences329–325 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences325–321 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences426.7 Mya335.4 Mya435 Mya321 Mya

38 occurrences of Taxocrinus 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

38 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

14 formations

Muldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WMuldraugh — 40.06°N, 86.90°WBorden — 38.50°N, 85.92°WBorden — 38.04°N, 85.72°WBorden — 37.70°N, 85.87°WBorden — 38.29°N, 83.32°WBorden — 37.96°N, 83.67°WEdwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.25°WNewman — 36.53°N, 83.22°WNewman — 37.91°N, 83.86°WDyer — 39.77°N, 107.35°WCelechovice Limestone — 49.57°N, 17.25°EVirgin Hills — 18.64°S, 126.07°EClifton Down Limestone — 51.18°N, 2.43°WWassonville — 41.20°N, 92.10°WMuch Wenlock — 52.50°N, 2.08°WHongguleleng — 46.75°N, 86.13°EHutk — 30.57°N, 56.95°ESamnuuruul — 45.27°N, 91.50°EPilton — 51.08°N, 4.12°W

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The named rock units Taxocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Taxocrinus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Taxocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

485 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Taxocrinus, 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

21 references

Each of the 38 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. 9 further references are 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 content2

Picture of Taxocrinus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Phillips 1843