Anulocrinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CalceocrinidaePBDB
- 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 9.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 448.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 445.2 Mya.
8 occurrences of Anulocrinus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician100%
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
- Bromide Formation · Simpson Group3
- Platteville Formation1
- Grand Detour Formation · Platteville Group1
- Nachusa Formation1
- Quimbys Mill Formation1
- South Threave Formation · Drummock Group1
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The named rock units Anulocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Anulocrinus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Anulocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
114 taxa- Porocrinus7 sites
- Abludoglyptocrinus charltoni4 sites
- Cremacrinus4 sites
- Dendrocrinus4 sites
- Glyptocystites4 sites
- Merocrinus4 sites
- Anatiferocystis papillata3 sites
- Anthracocrinus primitivus3 sites
- Archaeocrinus3 sites
- Carabocrinus3 sites
- Cupulocrinus3 sites
- Eurycystites granosus3 sites
- <Camerate>2 sites
- <Cincinnaticrinid>2 sites
- Calceocrinus2 sites
- Cyathocystis2 sites
- Diabolocrinus2 sites
- Hudsonaster narrawayi2 sites
- Hybocrinus2 sites
- Myeinocystites natus2 sites
- Neobothriocidaris2 sites
- Pleurocystites squamosus2 sites
- Praepleurocystis watkinsi2 sites
- Quinquecaudex2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Anulocrinus, 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- Upper Mississippi Valley Champlainian and Cincinnatian echinoderms4
- The Lady Burn starfish beds1
- Previous studies of Bromide echinoderms1
- Camerates1
- Pleurocystitids1
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 Anulocrinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anulocrinus 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 itCalceocrinidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ramsbottom 1961