Oklahomacrinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmpelocrinidaePBDB
- 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 25 million years on record.
The record covers at least 315.2 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 283.3 Mya.
4 occurrences of Oklahomacrinus 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
4 occurrences- Carboniferous75%
- Permian25%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Oklahomacrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Oklahomacrinus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Oklahomacrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
111 taxa- Calycocrinus2 sites
- Actinocrinitidae1 site
- Affinocrinus1 site
- Alcimocrinus1 site
- Alphachoristites1 site
- Angioblastus ellesmerensis1 site
- Anthracospirifer occiduus1 site
- Antiquatonia1 site
- Antronaria1 site
- Arroyocrinus brachiatus1 site
- Arroyocrinus popenoei1 site
- Bisatoceras kotti1 site
- Boesites1 site
- Bridgerocrinidae1 site
- Camarium1 site
- Cancrinella1 site
- Cantabriella1 site
- Careoseptum septentrionalis1 site
- Celonocrinus expansus1 site
- Cenorhynchia1 site
- Chonetinella1 site
- Christioceras trifurcatum1 site
- Cladida1 site
- Clathrocrinus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Oklahomacrinus, 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- Pennsylvanian crinoids from Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada2
- New Permian crinoids from the Battleship Wash patch reef in southern Nevada1
- Middle Pennsylvanian (Atokan) crinoids from Oklahoma and Missouri1
Each of the 4 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 Oklahomacrinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Oklahomacrinus 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 itAmpelocrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Moore 1939