Agaricocrinus

Agaricocrinus is a genus of extinct crinoids, belonging to the family Coelocrinidae.

Agaricocrinus

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
CoelocrinidaePBDB
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 most 36 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 323.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 0 of 112 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 112 of 112 occurrencesCarboniferous360–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences355–353 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 8 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 10 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 10 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 10 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 13 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 16 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 16 occurrences344–342 Mya — about 12 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 7 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 7 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences359.6 Mya322.7 Mya

112 occurrences of Agaricocrinus 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

112 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 — 36.93°N, 84.97°WFort Payne — 36.71°N, 85.48°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, 85.36°WFort Payne — 36.54°N, 85.13°WFort Payne — 35.12°N, 87.44°WFort Payne — 36.56°N, 85.21°WFort Payne — 36.88°N, 85.06°WFort Payne — 36.96°N, 85.07°WFort Payne Chert — 36.75°N, 85.15°WFort Payne Chert — 36.80°N, 85.40°WFort Payne Chert — 36.54°N, 85.45°WFort Payne Chert — 36.94°N, 84.97°WFort Payne Chert — 36.78°N, 85.10°WFort Payne Chert — 36.87°N, 85.15°WFort Payne Chert — 36.69°N, 85.49°WFort Payne Chert — 36.85°N, 85.98°WFort Payne Chert — 36.95°N, 84.98°WFort Payne Chert — 36.71°N, 85.37°WLake Valley — 32.72°N, 107.57°WLake Valley — 32.93°N, 105.90°WLake Valley — 32.75°N, 107.66°WLake Valley — 32.89°N, 107.69°WLake Valley — 32.92°N, 107.55°WLake Valley — 32.22°N, 108.31°WLake Valley — 32.53°N, 107.73°WEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.25°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WBorden — 37.70°N, 85.87°WBorden — 38.28°N, 83.38°WBorden — 38.04°N, 83.53°WCarwood — 38.50°N, 85.83°WCarwood — 38.32°N, 85.90°W

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

Agaricocrinus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Agaricocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

304 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 66 sites for Agaricocrinus, 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

11 references

Each of the 112 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 Agaricocrinus

Credit
Hectonichus
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 was 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 itCoelocrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Austin 1851