Cupressocrinites

{{Short description|Extinct genus of crinoids}}

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{{Taxobox

| name = Cupressocrinites

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Middle Devonian|Late Devonian|ref=}}

| image = Cupressocrinites elongatus (2).jpg

| image_caption = C. elongatus fossil on display at Naturalis

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Echinodermata

| subphylum = Crinozoa

| classis = Crinoidea

| subclassis = Camerata

| ordo = Cladida

| superfamilia = Gasterocomacea

| familia = Cupressocrinitidae

| genus = †Cupressocrinites

| genus_authority = Goldfuss, 1831

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

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Cupressocrinites is an extinct genus of crinoids from the Middle to Late Devonian of Asia, Australia, Europe, Morocco, and North America.{{cite book | title=Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth | publisher=Dorling Kindersley | author=Palmer, Douglas | date= 5 October 2009 | location=New York | isbn=978-0-7566-5573-0 | page=126 | edition=first American|display-authors=etal}}{{cite book | title=Fossils | publisher=Dorling Kindersley | author=Walker, Cyril | last2=Ward | first2=David | authorlink=Cyril Walker (palaeontologist) | authorlink2=David Ward (palaeontologist) | series=Smithsonian Handbooks | year=2002 | page=167 | isbn=0-7894-8984-8 | edition=revised, illustrated}}

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