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Dendrocrinidae ✝

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Dendrocrinus sp.

Niagara County, New York, USA

Dendrocrinus sp.

Niagara County, New York, USA

Dendrocrinus sp.

Niagara County, New York, USA

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4873168	https://www.gbif.org/species/4873168
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	86727	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=86727

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Crinoidea : Dendrocrinidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Crinoidea : Dendrocrinida : Dendrocrinidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ambulacraria
phylum	Echinodermata	Klein 1754
subphylum	Crinozoa	Matsumoto 1929
class	Crinoidea	Miller 1821
subclass	Pentacrinoidea	Jaekel 1918
infraclass	Inadunata
-	Cladida
-	Eucladida	Wright 2017
superorder	Cyathoformes	Wright et al. 2017
order	Dendrocrinida	Bather 1899
superfamily	Dendrocrinacea	Wachsmuth and Springer 1886
family	Dendrocrinidae	Wachsmuth and Springer 1886

Scientific Name

Dendrocrinidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Dendrocrinidae	family	belongs to Cladida	stated without evidence	Kolata, 1976
Dendrocrinidae	family	belongs to Dendrocrinina	stated with evidence	Parsley, 1981
Dendrocrinidae	family	belongs to Dendrocrinacea	stated with evidence	Ausich, 1998
Dendrocrinidae	family	belongs to Dendrocrinacea	stated without evidence	Ausich and Copper, 2010
Dendrocrinidae	family	belongs to Cyathoformes	stated without evidence	Ausich et al., 2019

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

478 - 470 Ma
Early/Lower Ordovician

Last Recorded Appearance

419 - 411 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian

Environment

marine (based on Echinodermata)

Motility

stationary, attached (based on Cladida)

Vision

blind (based on Crinoidea)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Cladida)

Reproduction

dispersal=water,planktonic (based on Echinodermata)

Ontogeny

accretion,addition of parts (based on Echinodermata)

Taphonomy

high Mg calcite (based on Crinoidea)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

D. R. Kolata. 1976. Crinoids from the Upper Ordovician Bighorn Formation of Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology 50(3):444-453

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Aetocrinus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	478 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician	439 Ma Silurian
Brechmocrinus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	472 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician	472 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician
Compagicrinus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Dendrocrinus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		91	470 Ma Middle Ordovician	419 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Elpasocrinus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Esthonocrinus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Grenprisia ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Laurucrinus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	441 Ma Silurian	441 Ma Silurian
Ottawacrinus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Quienquecaudex genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Rozhnovicrinus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		2	443 Ma Silurian	441 Ma Silurian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1886	Dendrocrinidae Wachsmuth and Springer
1943	Ottawacrinidae Moore and Laudon
1976	Dendrocrinidae Kolata p. 448
1981	Dendrocrinidae Parsley
1998	Dendrocrinidae Ausich p. 21
1998	Dendrocrinidae Ausich et al.
2010	Dendrocrinidae Ausich and Copper p. 37
2019	Dendrocrinidae Ausich et al.
2019	Dendrocrinidae Wright et al.

References

Kolata D. R. (1976) Crinoids from the Upper Ordovician Bighorn Formation of Wyoming, Journal of Paleontology 50 3, 444-453

Parsley R. L. (1981) Echinoderms from Middle and Upper Ordovician rocks of Kentucky, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1066-K, 1-9

Ausich W. I. (1998) Phylogeny of Arenig to Caradoc crinoids (Phylum Echinodermata) and suprageneric classification of the Crinoidea, The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, n. s. 9, 1-36

Ausich W.I., Bolton T. E., et al (1998) Whiterockian (Ordovician) crinoid fauna from the Table Head Group, western Newfoundland, Canada, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 35, 121-130

Ausich W. I., Copper P. (2010) The Crinoidea of Anticosti Island, Quebec (Late Ordovician to Early Silurian), Palaeontographica Canadiana 29, 1-157

Ausich W. I., Wilson M. A., et al (2019) Early Silurian recovery of Baltica crinoids following the end-Ordovician extinctions (Llandovery, Estonia), Journal of Paleontology doi:doi: 10.1017/jpa.2019.89

All genera fossil, refer Sepkoski, 2002. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Aphia (ext.) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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