Abrotocrinus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of crinoids}}

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| image = Cladida - Abrotocrinus.JPG

| image_caption = Fossil of Abrotocrinus from Carboniferous of United States

| fossil_range = Early Carboniferous, {{Fossil range|353.8|345.0}}

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Echinodermata

| subphylum = Crinozoa

| classis = Crinoidea

| subclassis = Camerata

| ordo = Cladida

| genus = Abrotocrinus

| genus_authority = Miller and Gurley, 1890 Miller, S.A., and Gurley, W.F.S. (1888). Description of Some New Genera and Species of Echinodermata From the Coal Measures and Subcarboniferous Rocks of Indiana, Missouri, and Iowa. In Indiana Department of Geology and Natural Resources, Sixteenth Annual Report, pp. 327-373.

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Abrotocrinus is an extinct genus of crinoids.

Fossil record

This genus is known in the fossil record of the Carboniferous period of United States and Canada (age range: 353.8 to 345.0 million years ago).[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=32025 Paleobiology Database]

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