Actinocrinites

Actinocrinites is an extinct genus of crinoids.

Actinocrinites

Parent Géry · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
ActinocrinitinaePBDB
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 129 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 422.7 Mya to 283.3 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 76 occurrencesDevonian — about 4 of 76 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 69 of 76 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 76 occurrencesPermian425–421 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences421–416 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences392–387 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences387–382 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences372–367 Mya — about 2 occurrences367–363 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences363–358 Mya — about 1 occurrence358–353 Mya — about 3 occurrences353–348 Mya — about 19 occurrences348–343 Mya — about 31 occurrences343–339 Mya — about 13 occurrences339–334 Mya — about 1 occurrence319–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–310 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences310–305 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences295–290 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences290–285 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences285–281 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences419.62 Mya290.1 Mya425 Mya281 Mya

76 occurrences of Actinocrinites 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

76 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

21 formations

Fort Payne — 36.93°N, 84.97°WFort Payne — 36.95°N, 85.01°WFort Payne — 36.75°N, 85.15°WFort Payne — 36.78°N, 85.10°WFort Payne — 36.72°N, 85.37°WFort Payne — 35.12°N, 87.44°WFort Payne — 36.50°N, 85.14°WFort Payne — 35.00°N, 87.30°WFort Payne — 34.80°N, 86.70°WEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.25°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WFort Payne Chert — 36.92°N, 84.96°WFort Payne Chert — 36.95°N, 84.98°WFort Payne Chert — 36.86°N, 85.13°WFort Payne Chert — 36.71°N, 85.37°WBorden — 38.08°N, 85.71°WBorden — 37.70°N, 85.87°WBorden — 38.29°N, 83.32°WBorden — 38.28°N, 83.38°WBorden — 38.04°N, 83.53°WBorden — 37.94°N, 83.62°WKeokuk Limestone — 40.00°N, 91.00°WMuldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WWarsaw — 40.00°N, 91.00°WBurlington Limestone — 40.00°N, 91.00°WLake Valley — 32.72°N, 107.57°WLake Valley — 32.89°N, 107.69°WCelechovice Limestone — 49.57°N, 17.25°ESkala — 49.58°N, 23.90°EClifton Down Limestone — 51.18°N, 2.43°WNamoi — 30.58°S, 150.60°EFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°WQijiagou — 43.33°N, 88.89°ECallytharra — 25.88°S, 115.50°EHongguleleng — 46.60°N, 85.98°EMirari — 32.51°S, 151.66°EFlagstaff — 30.28°S, 153.01°ESamnuuruul — 45.27°N, 91.50°ENehden — 51.43°N, 8.63°E

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The named rock units Actinocrinites 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.

Actinocrinites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Actinocrinites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

774 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Actinocrinites, 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

25 references

Each of the 76 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. 13 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 Actinocrinites

Credit
Parent Géry
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1821