Scytalocrinus
{{Short description|Extinct genus of crinoids}}
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{{Taxobox
| name = Scytalocrinus
| image = Scytalocrinus UMMNH.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = Fossil of S. decadactylus, University of Michigan Museum of Natural History
| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Carboniferous}}
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Echinodermata
| subphylum = Crinozoa
| classis = Crinoidea
| subclassis = Cladida
| ordo = Dendrocrinida
| familia = Scytalocrinidae
| genus = Scytalocrinus
| genus_authority = Wachsmuth and Springer, 1880 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.
}}
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).[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=32382 Paleobiology Database]
Species
- Scytalocrinus barumensis Whidborne 1896
- Scytalocrinus crassibrachiatus Moore and Strimple 1973
- Scytalocrinus sansabensis Moore and Plummer 1940
References
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- See also List of crinoid genera
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Category:Prehistoric crinoid genera
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