Scytalocrinus

Scytalocrinus
Temporal range: Carboniferous
Fossil of S. decadactylus, University of Michigan Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Crinoidea
Order: †Dendrocrinida
Family: †Scytalocrinidae
Genus: †Scytalocrinus
Wachsmuth and Springer, 1880

Scytalocrinus is an extinct genus of crinoids.

Fossil records

This genus is known in the fossil records of the Carboniferous period of United States and United Kingdom (age range: from 345.3 to 314.6 million years ago).

Species

References

  1. ↑ Charles Wachsmuth and Frank Springer, 1880 Revision of the Palaeocrinoidea. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Part III-November and December 1879 pages 226-278.
  2. ↑ Paleobiology Database
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