Scytalocrinus

Scytalocrinus; Temporal range: Carboniferous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Fossil of Scytalocrinus from Carboniferous of the United States
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Echinodermata
Subphylum:	Crinozoa
Class:	Crinoidea
Subclass:	Cladida
Order:	Dendrocrinida
Family:	Scytalocrinidae
Genus:	Scytalocrinus; Wachsmuth and Springer, 1880 [1]

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 Kinhgdom (age range: from 345.3 to 314.6 million years ago).[2]

Species

Scytalocrinus barumensis Whidborne 1896
Scytalocrinus crassibrachiatus Moore and Strimple 1973
Scytalocrinus sansabensis Moore and Plummer 1940

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References

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.
Paleobiology Database

See also List of crinoid genera

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[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