Endelocrinus rotundus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EndelocrinusPBDB
- 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 6.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 276.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 264.9 Mya.
2 occurrences of Endelocrinus rotundus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
2 occurrences- Permian100%
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
2 formations
- Winfield Formation1
- Falls City Limestone Formation · Admire Group1
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The named rock units Endelocrinus rotundus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Endelocrinus rotundus and its relatives
PermianWhere Endelocrinus rotundus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
8 taxa- Aviculopecten1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Dibunophyllum1 site
- Neospirifer dunbari1 site
- Parajuresania nebrascensis1 site
- Permophorus subcostatus1 site
- Schizodus wheeleri1 site
- Wilkingia terminale1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Endelocrinus rotundus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Crinoid Studies Part I. Some Pennsylvanian crinoids from Nebraska. Part II. Some Permian crinoids from Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma1
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Uppermost Pennsylvanian and Lowermost Permian Rocks in Kansas1
Each of the 2 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 rotundus
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- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Endelocrinus rotundus 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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What may have been alongside itEndelocrinus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Strimple 1962