Scytalocrinus

Scytalocrinus
Temporal range: Carboniferous
Fossil of Scytalocrinus from Carboniferous of United States
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

References

  1. 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.
  2. Paleobiology Database


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