Ampelocrinidae

Cymbiocrinus Kirk, 1944, a relative of Ampelocrinidae — not Ampelocrinidae itself

Not Ampelocrinidae. This is Cymbiocrinus Kirk, 1944, a relative — both are Ampelocrinidae.

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
AmpelocrinidaPBDB
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 63 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.9 Mya to 264.28 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 40 of 43 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 43 occurrencesPermian337–335 Mya — about 4 occurrences335–332 Mya — about 9 occurrences332–330 Mya — about 7 occurrences325–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–320 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences315–313 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences313–310 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences308–305 Mya — about 6 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 9 occurrences303–300 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences298–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences293–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences288–285 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences283–280 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences278–275 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences268–265 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences330.3 Mya266.9 Mya337 Mya263 Mya

43 occurrences of Ampelocrinidae 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

43 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

13 formations

Bangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WBangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WStanton — 41.02°N, 96.19°WStanton — 37.22°N, 95.83°WStanton — 38.96°N, 94.97°WStanton — 37.70°N, 95.68°WStanton — 37.06°N, 95.81°WBarnsdall — 36.41°N, 96.24°WBarnsdall — 36.92°N, 95.90°WBarnsdall — 36.91°N, 95.96°WBarnsdall — 36.75°N, 96.06°WBond — 40.78°N, 88.68°WMonteagle Limestone — 34.63°N, 86.55°WBird Spring — 36.70°N, 114.42°WHare Fiord — 81.13°N, 84.33°WCanyon Ford — 77.63°N, 86.33°WAtoka — 34.53°N, 96.47°WGasper — 36.87°N, 82.27°WForaker — 40.45°N, 96.02°WOquirrh — 40.35°N, 111.58°WKhuff — 21.02°N, 57.59°E

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The named rock units Ampelocrinidae 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.

Ampelocrinidae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Ampelocrinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

297 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Ampelocrinidae, 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

12 references

Each of the 43 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 Cymbiocrinus Kirk, 1944

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ampelocrinidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itAmpelocrinida through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kirk 1942