Endelocrinus

Endelocrinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CatacrinidaePBDB
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 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 276.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 264.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 17 of 21 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 4 of 21 occurrencesPermian325–323 Mya — about 2 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 4 occurrences321–318 Mya — about 4 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 2 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 1 occurrence302–300 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences298–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences288–286 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences286–284 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318.6 Mya276.8 Mya325 Mya264 Mya

21 occurrences of Endelocrinus 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

21 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

11 formations

Bloyd — 35.96°N, 95.32°WBloyd — 35.94°N, 95.27°WBloyd — 35.62°N, 95.17°WBloyd — 34.57°N, 96.59°WBloyd — 36.12°N, 95.41°WBloyd — 36.19°N, 95.34°WWapanucka Limestone — 34.50°N, 96.47°WWapanucka Limestone — 34.47°N, 96.40°WBird Spring — 36.70°N, 114.42°WWolf Mountain — 33.20°N, 97.83°WAmes Limestone — 39.97°N, 81.31°WBond — 40.78°N, 88.68°WNaco — 33.78°N, 110.33°WWinfield — 39.42°N, 96.76°WOquirrh — 40.35°N, 111.58°WMorrow — 35.83°N, 95.23°WFalls City Limestone — 37.55°N, 96.45°W

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The named rock units Endelocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Endelocrinus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Endelocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

153 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Endelocrinus, 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

9 references

Each of the 21 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 Endelocrinus

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Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Endelocrinus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Moore and Plummer 1940