Allosocrinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CalceolispongiidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cladida
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Cladida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cladida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 303.7 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 306 Mya to 283.3 Mya.
3 occurrences of Allosocrinus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
3 occurrences- Carboniferous43%
- Permian57%
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
3 formations
- Bond Formation · McLeansboro Group1
- Bird Spring Formation1
- Kanwaka Formation1
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The named rock units Allosocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Allosocrinus and its relatives
PermianWhere Allosocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
81 taxa- Adacrinus edema1 site
- Aesiocrinus detrusus1 site
- Aglaocrinus compactus1 site
- Anobasicrinus brevis1 site
- Apographiocrinus typicalis1 site
- Arroyocrinus brachiatus1 site
- Arroyocrinus popenoei1 site
- Belemnospongia parmula1 site
- Brabeocrinus christinae1 site
- Calliasterella americana1 site
- Celonocrinus expansus1 site
- Chlidonocrinus1 site
- Cibolocrinus typus1 site
- Clathrocrinus clathratus1 site
- Clathrocrinus clinatus1 site
- Contocrinus coupi1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Delocrinus vastus1 site
- Delocrinus vulgatus1 site
- Dichocrinus nola1 site
- Ekteinocrinus battleshipensis1 site
- Elassocrinus delicatulus1 site
- Elassocrinus inornatus1 site
- Elibatocrinus elegans1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Allosocrinus, 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
3 references- New Permian crinoids from the Battleship Wash patch reef in southern Nevada1
- Taphonomic Analysis and Systematic Descriptions of Some Late Pennsylvanian and Early Permian Crinoids from Southeastern Nebraska, Eastern Kansas and Southwestern Iowa1
- Crinoids of the LaSalle Limestone (Pennsylvanian) of Illinois1
Each of the 3 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 Allosocrinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Allosocrinus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCalceolispongiidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.