Athlocrinus

Athlocrinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LaudonocrinidaePBDB
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 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 306 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 303.7 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318.6 Mya306 Mya323.9 Mya303.2 Mya

2 occurrences of Athlocrinus 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

2 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

2 formations

Wolf Mountain — 33.20°N, 97.83°WBloyd — 34.57°N, 96.59°W

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

Athlocrinus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Athlocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

32 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Athlocrinus, 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

Each of the 2 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 Athlocrinus

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itLaudonocrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Moore and Plummer 1940