38 D5. Contributions from Paleontology, Paleoclimatology, and Geoarchaeology (Posters)

Sunday, 30 March 2025
8:30 AM - 2:30 PM
North Great Hall

FIRST REPORT OF REGENERATION IN STELLAROCRINID CRINOID AXILLARY SPINES: EVIDENCE FOR ATTEMPTED PREDATION FROM THE UPPER PENNSYLVANIAN WANN FORMATION OF NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA

Paper number: 38-8
Program: Technical Sessions
Time: 8:30 AM – 2:30 PM

Authors

Abstract

Cladid crinoid crown spines showing evidence of breakage followed by regeneration are relatively common and generally regarded as evidence of attempted predation, most likely by snipping fishes. Herein, we describe a minute spine from the Upper Pennsylvanian (Kasimovian) Wann Formation of northeastern Oklahoma, USA, that represents a stellarocrinid axillary spine. The specimen contains a single plane of breakage and subsequent regeneration, making this the first detailed description of predation-generated regeneration in an ossicle of this type, and one of few examples of regeneration in a stellarocrinid prey target. Predation-generated breakage of stellarocrinid spines is not surprising and probably reflects a general lack of attention to isolated crinoid ossicles. This occurrence of attempted predation provides further suggestive evidence that such biotic interactions likely drove the spinosity characteristic of this group.

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 57, No. 3

doi: 10.1130/abs/2025NE-407671

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