Uperocrinus

Uperocrinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BatocrinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Monobathrida
Life habit
upper-level epifaunalPBDB, for Monobathrida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Monobathrida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 346.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 339.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 36 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 35 of 36 occurrencesCarboniferous373–372 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences371–369 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences368–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences359–358 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences355–354 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences354–353 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 2 occurrences352–350 Mya — about 4 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 4 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 4 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 4 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 4 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 3 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 3 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 3 occurrences343–341 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358.86 Mya346.7 Mya372.8 Mya339.3 Mya

36 occurrences of Uperocrinus 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

36 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

6 formations

Fort Payne — 36.75°N, 85.15°WFort Payne — 36.94°N, 85.01°WFort Payne — 36.78°N, 85.10°WFort Payne — 36.72°N, 85.36°WFort Payne — 35.12°N, 87.44°WFort Payne — 36.50°N, 85.14°WFort Payne — 36.56°N, 85.21°WBorden — 38.29°N, 83.32°WBorden — 38.28°N, 83.38°WBorden — 37.96°N, 83.67°WFort Payne Chert — 36.95°N, 84.98°WFort Payne Chert — 36.86°N, 85.13°WFort Payne Chert — 36.71°N, 85.37°WLake Valley — 32.79°N, 107.59°WLake Valley — 32.89°N, 105.87°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.25°WHongguleleng — 46.60°N, 85.98°E

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The named rock units Uperocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Uperocrinus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Uperocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

119 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Uperocrinus, 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

5 references

Each of the 36 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 content2

Picture of Uperocrinus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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What may have been alongside itBatocrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meek and Worthen 1865