Tetrabrachiocrinus fabianii
No picture of Tetrabrachiocrinus fabianii 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 Tetrabrachiocrinus fabianii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TetrabrachiocrinusPBDB
- 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 most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Tetrabrachiocrinus fabianii 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- Permian100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Tetrabrachiocrinus fabianii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tetrabrachiocrinus fabianii and its relatives
PermianWhere Tetrabrachiocrinus fabianii and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Auriculospongia auriculata3 sites
- Auriculospongia perforata3 sites
- Intratubospongia osiensis3 sites
- Laccosiphonella merlai3 sites
- Prestellispongia paula3 sites
- Prestellispongia permica3 sites
- Pseudohimatella pauciporata3 sites
- Stellispongiella reticulata3 sites
- Colospongia cortexifera2 sites
- Cystothalamia conica2 sites
- Discosiphonella mammilosus2 sites
- Estrellospongia grossa2 sites
- Exotubispongia pustulata2 sites
- Exotubispongia virgulata2 sites
- Medenina laterala2 sites
- Mollusca2 sites
- Permocorynella ovoidalis2 sites
- Polytubifungia maxima2 sites
- Prestellispongia lobata2 sites
- Pseudoguadalupia alveolaris2 sites
- Radiofibra delicata2 sites
- Radiofibra lineata2 sites
- Radiotrabeculopora reticulata2 sites
- Radiotrabeculopora xiangboensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Tetrabrachiocrinus fabianii, 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
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 Tetrabrachiocrinus fabianii 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 Tetrabrachiocrinus fabianii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tetrabrachiocrinus fabianii 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 itTetrabrachiocrinus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yakovlev 1934