Scytalocrinus
Extinct genus of crinoids
Scytalocrinus Temporal range: Carboniferous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Fossil of S. decadactylus, University of Michigan Museum of Natural History | |
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
References
- See also List of crinoid genera
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