Scytalocrinus is an extinct genus of crinoids.

Scytalocrinus
Temporal range: Carboniferous
Fossil of S. decadactylus, University of Michigan Museum of Natural History
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Scytalocrinus

Fossil records

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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

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  • Scytalocrinus barumensis Whidborne 1896
  • Scytalocrinus crassibrachiatus Moore and Strimple 1973
  • Scytalocrinus sansabensis Moore and Plummer 1940

References

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  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