Camptocrinus

Camptocrinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlatycrinitidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Monobathrida
Life habit
upper-level epifaunalPBDB, for Monobathrida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Monobathrida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 122 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 283.3 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 66 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 66 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 51 of 66 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 14 of 66 occurrencesPermian422–418 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences418–413 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences361–356 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences356–351 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences351–347 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences347–342 Mya — about 4 occurrences342–337 Mya — about 4 occurrences337–333 Mya — about 25 occurrences333–328 Mya — about 17 occurrences328–323 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences295–290 Mya — about 13 occurrences290–285 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences285–281 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences413.02 Mya290.1 Mya422 Mya281 Mya

66 occurrences of Camptocrinus 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

66 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

10 formations

Bangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WBangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WCallytharra — 25.88°S, 115.50°ESalem Limestone — 37.80°N, 85.80°WSalem Limestone — 37.18°N, 85.32°WSalem Limestone — 37.19°N, 85.37°WSalem Limestone — 37.05°N, 85.05°WEdwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.25°WCarwood — 38.50°N, 85.83°WCarwood — 38.32°N, 85.90°WBorden — 37.70°N, 85.87°WMonteagle Limestone — 34.63°N, 86.55°WLower Limestone — 56.10°N, 3.18°WLochkov — 49.98°N, 14.18°ENewman — 37.91°N, 83.86°W

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The named rock units Camptocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Camptocrinus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Camptocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

573 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Camptocrinus, 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

14 references

Each of the 66 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 Camptocrinus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
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 itPlatycrinitidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wachsmuth and Springer 1897