Actinocrinitidae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PeriechocrinoideaPBDB
- 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 251.902 Mya.
243 occurrences of Actinocrinitidae 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
243 occurrences- Silurianunder 1%
- Devonian3%
- Carboniferous93%
- Permian4%
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
32 formations
- Lake Valley Formation87
- Fort Payne Formation66
- Edwardsville Formation13
- Fort Payne Chert Formation11
- Borden Formation9
- Banff Formation5
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The named rock units Actinocrinitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Actinocrinitidae and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Actinocrinitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
1,040 taxa- Actinocrinites57 sites
- Platycrinites42 sites
- Synbathocrinus36 sites
- Barycrinus31 sites
- Halysiocrinus30 sites
- Agaricocrinus29 sites
- Eretmocrinus magnificus26 sites
- Catillocrinus22 sites
- Alloprosallocrinus conicus21 sites
- Cyathocrinites21 sites
- Thinocrinus20 sites
- Cyathocrinites iowensis19 sites
- Macrocrinus18 sites
- Gilbertsocrinus tuberosus17 sites
- Eucladocrinus16 sites
- Eretmocrinus15 sites
- Nunnacrinus dalyanus15 sites
- Abatocrinus grandis14 sites
- Magnuscrinus praegravis14 sites
- Paradichocrinus14 sites
- Physetocrinus copei14 sites
- Steganocrinus pentagonus14 sites
- Agaricocrinus planoconvexus13 sites
- Dichocrinus13 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 113 sites for Actinocrinitidae, 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
37 references- Camerate crinoids from the Nunn Member (Tournaisian, Osagean) of the Lower Mississippian Lake Valley Formation, New Mexico87
- Crinoid assemblages from the Fort Payne Formation (late Osagean, early Viséan, Mississippian) from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama37
- Actinocrinitidae from the Lower Mississippian Fort Payne Formation of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama (Crinoidea, Viséan)36
- Community Organization, Paleontology, and Sedimentology of the Lower Mississippian Borden Delta Platform (Edwardsville Formation, Southern Indiana)11
- Late Osagean and Meramecian Actinocrinites (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) from the Mississippian stratotype region10
- Crinoids from the Nada Member of the Borden Formation (Lower Mississippian) in eastern Kentucky7
- Die permischen Krinoiden von Timor7
- Mississippian crinoid fauna from the Banff Formation, Sunwapta Pass, Alberta5
- A bootstrap analysis for comparative taphonomy applied to Early Mississippian (Kinderhookian) crinoids from the Wassonville Cycle of Iowa3
- Paleontology and paleoecology of the Crawfordsville fossil site (Upper Osagian: Indiana)3
- Some lower Carboniferous crinoids from New South Wales3
- A detailed account of the fauna and age of a Waulsortian Reef Knoll Limestone and associated shales, Feltrim, Co., Dublin3
Each of the 243 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. 25 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 content1
Picture of Actinocrinitidae
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- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Actinocrinitidae 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 itPeriechocrinoidea through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Austin and Austin 1842