Applinocrinus cretaceus

Applinocrinus cretacea (Bather, 1924), a relative of Applinocrinus cretaceus — not Applinocrinus cretaceus itself

Not Applinocrinus cretaceus. This is Applinocrinus cretacea (Bather, 1924), a relative — both are Saccocomidae.

Mrs C. T. Gaster · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
ApplinocrinusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Saccocomidae
Life habit
upper-level epifaunalPBDB, for Saccocomidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Saccocomidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At most 22 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 24 of 24 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 24 occurrencesPaleocene84–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences76–76 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences73–73 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84.1 Mya61.2 Mya

24 occurrences of Applinocrinus cretaceus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

24 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

6 formations

Maastricht — 50.85°N, 5.70°EMaastricht — 50.85°N, 5.77°EGulpen — 50.73°N, 5.67°EGulpen — 50.80°N, 5.67°EMaastricht — 50.80°N, 5.67°EWhite Chalk — 54.52°N, 13.63°ECampanien 1-2 — 45.75°N, 0.47°WJerusalem Mountain — 18.34°N, 78.22°W

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The named rock units Applinocrinus cretaceus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Applinocrinus cretaceus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Applinocrinus cretaceus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

282 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Applinocrinus cretaceus, 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

5 references

Each of the 24 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 Applinocrinus cretacea (Bather, 1924)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Mrs C. T. Gaster
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itApplinocrinus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bather 1924)