Allagecrinus

Allagecrinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AllagecrinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Disparida
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Disparida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Disparida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 306 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 365.2 Mya to 303.7 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 8 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 6 of 8 occurrencesCarboniferous366–364 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences364–362 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences358–356 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences356–354 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences354–352 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences337–334 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences334–332 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences332–330 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences305–302 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences358.86 Mya306 Mya366 Mya302 Mya

8 occurrences of Allagecrinus 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

8 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

5 formations

Louisiana Limestone — 39.45°N, 91.05°WLower Limestone — 56.10°N, 3.18°WLower Limestone — 55.78°N, 3.33°WChouteau — 38.83°N, 92.40°WChouteau — 39.05°N, 92.27°WMcCraney Limestone — 39.76°N, 91.26°WWolf Mountain — 33.20°N, 97.83°W

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

Allagecrinus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Allagecrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

112 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Allagecrinus, 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

5 references

Each of the 8 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 content1

Picture of Allagecrinus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Allagecrinus 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 itAllagecrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Etheridge and Carpenter 1881