Enallocrinus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CrotalocrinitidaePBDB
- 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 least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 393.47 Mya.
3 occurrences of Enallocrinus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Enallocrinus 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.
Enallocrinus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Enallocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
102 taxa- Cyclonema2 sites
- Platyceratidae2 sites
- Syndetocrinus2 sites
- Amphiocoelia1 site
- Amphistrophia (Amphistrophiella)1 site
- Anthozoa1 site
- Arachnophyllum1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Atrypinella1 site
- Aulopora1 site
- Balizoma1 site
- Barrandina1 site
- Bellerophontoidea1 site
- Beraunia1 site
- Boiotremus1 site
- Botryocrinus1 site
- Butovicella1 site
- Cardiola1 site
- Ceratocephala1 site
- Clonocrinus1 site
- Coelocalus sp.1 site
- Craniops1 site
- Crotalocrintes sp.1 site
- Cyathocrinites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Enallocrinus, 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
3 references- Carbonate depositional environments, sequence stratigraphy and exceptional skeletal preservation in the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation (Silurian) of Dudley, England1
- Silurian and Lochkovian communities in the Prague basin (Barrandian area, Czech Republic)1
- Wenlockian to Emsian communities of the Carnic Alps (Austria and Italy)1
Each of the 3 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 Enallocrinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Enallocrinus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itCrotalocrinitidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Orbigny 1850