Triacrinus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PisocrinidaePBDB
- 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 6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 399.5 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 387.95 Mya.
7 occurrences of Triacrinus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
7 occurrences- Devonian100%
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 Triacrinus 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.
Triacrinus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Triacrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
213 taxa- Acanthocrinus2 sites
- Anetoceras arduennense2 sites
- Bactrocrinites jaekeli2 sites
- Bathericrinus semipinnulatus2 sites
- Buchiola2 sites
- Chotecops2 sites
- Codiacrinus2 sites
- Conularia2 sites
- Eutaxocrinus2 sites
- Follicrinus2 sites
- Gemuendina stuertzi2 sites
- Hapalocrinus2 sites
- Lasiocrinus2 sites
- Maucheria gemuendensis2 sites
- Mimagoniatites fecundus2 sites
- Orthoceras2 sites
- Palaeocucumaria hunsrueckiana2 sites
- Parisangulocrinus2 sites
- Pisocrinus2 sites
- Regulaecystis pleurocystoides2 sites
- Rhenocystis2 sites
- Stuertzaspis germanica2 sites
- Taeniaster2 sites
- Acanthotriletes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Triacrinus, 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
3 references- Pflanzen im Hunsrueckschiefer4
- The stratigraphical distribution of Devonian crinoids in the Barrandian area (Czechoslovakia)2
- Novyye rannedevonskiye tabulyaty yuzhnogo Tyan-Shanya [New Early Devonian tabulate corals from the southern Tien Shan Range]1
Each of the 7 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 content1

Picture of Triacrinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Triacrinus 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 itPisocrinidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Muenster 1839