Traumatocrinus

Alberto Salguero · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
- TraumatocrinidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Encrinida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Encrinida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Encrinida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At least 5.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 239.48 Mya to 233.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 227.3 Mya.
14 occurrences of Traumatocrinus on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
14 occurrencesThese 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
9 formations
- Raibl Formation2
- Raibl Formation2
- Tianjingshan Formation1
- Yangliujing Formation1
- Zhuganpo Formation1
- Xiaowa Formation1
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The named rock units Traumatocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Traumatocrinus and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Traumatocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
197 taxa- Echinoidea4 sites
- Anoplophora recta3 sites
- Dentalium arctum3 sites
- Gervillia bouei3 sites
- Joannites cymbiformis3 sites
- Lingularia tenuissima3 sites
- Pecten hallensis3 sites
- Zardinicrinus granulosus3 sites
- Amusium filosum2 sites
- Atreta intusstriata2 sites
- Bairdia2 sites
- Cassianella sturi2 sites
- Cassianochaetetes gnemidius2 sites
- Colospongia dubia2 sites
- Daonella2 sites
- Eocaudina2 sites
- Fimbria astartiformis2 sites
- Gruenewaldia woehrmanni2 sites
- Halobia2 sites
- Halobia subcomata2 sites
- Hayashiella nodosa2 sites
- Heminajas fissidentata2 sites
- Isocrinus2 sites
- Lima2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Traumatocrinus, 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
10 references- Die Fauna der sogenannten Cardita- und Raibler-Schichten in den Nordtiroler und bayerischen Alpen.4
- The Late Triassic black shales of the Guanling area, Guizhou province, south-west China: a unique marine reptile and pelagic crinoid fossil lagerstätte2
- The Middle Triassic stratigraphy and sedimentary paleogeography of South China1
- Echinoderms from the Middle Triassic Sina Formation (Aghdarband Group) in NE Iran1
- Carnian (Upper Triassic) sponge mounds of the northwestern Sichuan Basin, China: Stratigraphy, facies and paleoecology1
- Trias-Foraminiferen von Kumaun im Himalaya [Triassic foraminifers from Kumaun, Himalaya]1
- Fossili di Cortina. Atlante degli Echinodermi Cassiani Trias Medio Superiore della regione dolomitica attorno a Cortina d'Ampezzo1
- Palaeontological identifications, in (Heim & Gansser) Central Himalaya: Geologic Observations of the Swiss Expedition 19361
- De stratigraphie van Nederlandsch Oost-Indie. 19. Mesozoikum1
- Upper Triassic Cephalopoda faunae of the Himalaya1
Each of the 14 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 content2

Picture of Traumatocrinus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Alberto Salguero
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Tavernier Amaury
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
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 itTraumatocrinidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woehrmann 1889