Scytalocrinus

Scytalocrinus
Temporal range: Carboniferous
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
gollark: Anyway, you hold shift to boost in the direction you look, and it has limited anti-fall-damage capability.
gollark: It vanished mysteriously and I got refunded.
gollark: I bought it for 100KST.
gollark: I used to have a command computer.
gollark: I do have a somewhat usable non-elytra flight thing.

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


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.