Kallimorphocrinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AllagecrinidaePBDB
- 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 77 million years on record.
The record covers at least 351.9 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 264.28 Mya.
22 occurrences of Kallimorphocrinus 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
22 occurrences- Carboniferous82%
- Permian18%
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
10 formations
- Stanton Formation · Lansing Group8
- Barnsdall Formation · Lansing Group4
- Borden Formation2
- Rat Buri Formation2
- Bird Spring Formation1
- Perth Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Kallimorphocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kallimorphocrinus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Kallimorphocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
159 taxa- Delocrinus12 sites
- Erisocrinus12 sites
- Apographiocrinus11 sites
- Cibolocrinus11 sites
- Exoriocrinus11 sites
- Scytalocrinidae11 sites
- Cymbiocrinidae10 sites
- Pirasocrinidae10 sites
- Stenopecrinidae indet.10 sites
- Cromyocrinidae9 sites
- Elibatocrinus9 sites
- Exocrinus9 sites
- Galateacrinus9 sites
- Paramphicrinus9 sites
- Stellarocrinus9 sites
- Ampelocrinidae8 sites
- Euonychocrinus8 sites
- Laudonocrinidae8 sites
- Glaukosocrinus6 sites
- Graffhamicrinus6 sites
- Lecythiocrinus6 sites
- Plummericrinus4 sites
- Bairdia3 sites
- Graphiadactyllis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Kallimorphocrinus, 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
9 references- Filtration models, guilds, and biofacies: crinoid paleoecology of the Stanton Formation (Upper Pennsylvanian), Midcontinent, North America12
- Early Permian inadunate crinoids from Thailand2
- Paleontology and Paleoecology of the Basal New Providence Shale (Osagian: Mississippian) at Paris Landing, Tennessee2
- Stratigraphical and geographical distribution of Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous) Crinoidea from Scotland1
- New Permian crinoids from the Battleship Wash patch reef in southern Nevada1
- Growth and systematic revision of Kallimorphocrinus astrus, a Pennsylvanian microcrinoid1
- Costatoblastus, a channel fill blastoid from the Sappington Formation of Montana1
- Some notes concerning the Allagecrinidae1
- Lower Mississippian microcrinoids from the Kinderhook and Osage groups of Missouri1
Each of the 22 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 Kallimorphocrinus
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- Licence
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- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Kallimorphocrinus 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 itAllagecrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weller 1930