Agelacrinitidae

Agelacrinitidae is an extinct family of prehistoric echinoderms in the class Edrioasteroidea.

Agelacrinitidae

Lardner Vanuxem (text); engraver unknown · Public Domain · 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
IsorophidaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Edrioasteroidea
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Edrioasteroidea
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Edrioasteroidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Edrioasteroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 216 million years on record.

The record covers at least 499.5 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 504.5 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 31 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 10 of 31 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 31 occurrencesDevonian — about 7 of 31 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 12 of 31 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 31 occurrencesPermian509–501 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences501–493 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–453 Mya — about 3 occurrences453–445 Mya — about 7 occurrences421–413 Mya — about 2 occurrences413–405 Mya — about 1 occurrence397–389 Mya — about 1 occurrence389–381 Mya — about 2 occurrences381–373 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences373–366 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences366–358 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences358–350 Mya — about 1 occurrence350–342 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences342–334 Mya — about 2 occurrences334–326 Mya — about 2 occurrences326–318 Mya — about 4 occurrences318–310 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences310–302 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences286–278 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences278–270 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences499.5 Mya283.3 Mya509 Mya270 Mya

31 occurrences of Agelacrinitidae 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

31 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

Golf Course — 33.95°N, 97.12°WBangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WOrchard Creek Shale — 37.19°N, 89.45°WScales — 37.23°N, 89.47°WManlius — 42.79°N, 74.58°WManlius — 42.66°N, 74.23°WJunkerberg — 50.44°N, 6.65°EMonteagle Limestone — 34.63°N, 86.55°WDecorah Shale — 44.00°N, 92.00°WQuimbys Mill — 42.00°N, 90.50°WSpechts Ferry — 42.00°N, 90.50°WGuttenberg — 42.00°N, 90.50°WSilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WMount Head — 50.48°N, 114.71°WVerulam — 44.00°N, 79.00°WBanff — 52.55°N, 117.55°WNaco — 34.33°N, 111.12°WTakamkyt — 67.00°N, 130.50°EWarsaw Limestone — 38.44°N, 90.20°WSeifen — 50.62°N, 7.55°EFarr — 47.45°N, 79.65°WMila — 35.81°N, 53.28°E

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The named rock units Agelacrinitidae 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.

Agelacrinitidae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Agelacrinitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

368 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Agelacrinitidae, 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

18 references

Each of the 31 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. 6 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 Agelacrinitidae

Credit
Lardner Vanuxem (text); engraver unknown
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Agelacrinitidae 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.

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 itIsorophida through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clarke 1901