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.

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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).[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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Category:Cladida

Category:Prehistoric crinoid genera

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