Archaeocalyptocrinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EucalyptocrinitidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Monobathrida
- Life habit
- upper-level epifaunalPBDB, for Monobathrida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Monobathrida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 422.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Archaeocalyptocrinus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
5 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Archaeocalyptocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Archaeocalyptocrinus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Archaeocalyptocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
134 taxa- Arctinurus3 sites
- Atrypa reticularis3 sites
- Cyclonema3 sites
- Dimerocrinites3 sites
- Eodictyonella3 sites
- Favosites3 sites
- Gomphocystites3 sites
- Howellella3 sites
- Isorthis3 sites
- Kionoceras3 sites
- Macrostylocrinus3 sites
- Orthida3 sites
- Phragmoceras3 sites
- Platyceras3 sites
- Anastrophia2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Bumastus2 sites
- Calymene2 sites
- Carpocrinus2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Crotalocrinites2 sites
- Cyclocrinites dactioloides2 sites
- Cytocrinus2 sites
- Dalejina2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Archaeocalyptocrinus, 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
2 references- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America3
- Silurian brachiopod and related benthic communities from carbonate platform and mound environments of Iowa and surrounding areas2
Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Archaeocalyptocrinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Archaeocalyptocrinus 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 itEucalyptocrinitidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whitzke and Strimple 1981