Austinocrinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IsselicrininaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Isselicrinidae
- Life habit
- upper-level epifaunalPBDB, for Isselicrinidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Isselicrinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.
7 occurrences of Austinocrinus 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
7 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Austinocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Austinocrinus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Austinocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
251 taxa- Echinocorys2 sites
- Isselicrinus buchii2 sites
- Ventriculites2 sites
- Amauropsis amoena1 site
- Amphiura plana1 site
- Amphorometra conoidea1 site
- Amphorometra rugiana1 site
- Aphrocallistes alveolites1 site
- Aporrhais rapax1 site
- Applinocrinus cretaceus1 site
- Aspidochirotida1 site
- Asteriidae1 site
- Asteronyx simplex1 site
- Asteronyx spinulosa1 site
- Atreta nilssoni1 site
- Aulaxinia fallax1 site
- Aulaxinia sulcifera1 site
- Avicula beisseli1 site
- Baculites1 site
- Baculites knorrianus1 site
- Baculites valognensis1 site
- Belemnitella mucronata1 site
- Biradiolites1 site
- Bostrychoceras polyplocum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Austinocrinus, 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
6 references- Late Cretaceous crinoids (Echinodermata) from the southwestern margin of the Holy Cross Mts. (southern Poland) and phylogenetic relationships among bourgueticrinids2
- The echinoderms of the Rügen White Chalk (Maastrichtian, Germany)1
- Late Campanian echinoids and crinoids from the Gschliefgraben (Ultrahelvetic, Austria)1
- Un reptil y algunos invertebrados fosiles de Rayon, Estado de Tamaulipas [A reptile and some invertebrate fossils from Rayon, Tamaulipas state]1
- Los Equiodermos fosiles de Cuba1
- Die Kreidebildungen des Fürbergs und Sulzbergs bei Siegsdorf in Oberbayern1
Each of the 7 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 Austinocrinus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- 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 itIsselicrininae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Loriol 1889