Affinocrinus

Affinocrinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PirasocrinidaePBDB
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 most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 323.4 Mya and 312.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 12 of 12 occurrencesCarboniferous324–323 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences316–316 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences314–314 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences323.9 Mya312.3 Mya

12 occurrences of Affinocrinus 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

12 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

3 formations

Bloyd — 35.94°N, 95.27°WBloyd — 35.62°N, 95.17°WBloyd — 34.57°N, 96.59°WBloyd — 35.75°N, 95.21°WBloyd — 36.12°N, 95.41°WAtoka — 34.53°N, 96.47°WLake Murray — 34.17°N, 97.18°W

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The named rock units Affinocrinus 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.

Affinocrinus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Affinocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

47 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Affinocrinus, 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 12 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 Affinocrinus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Affinocrinus 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 itPirasocrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Knapp 1969