Taxocrinus is an extinct genus of crinoids.
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| Genus: | Taxocrinus Phillips, 1843
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Fossil records
editThis genus is known in the fossil record from the Silurian period to the Carboniferous period (age range: from 428.2 to 326.4 million years ago). These fossils have been found in United Kingdom, United States, Australia, China, the Czech Republic and Germany.[1]
Species
edit- Taxocrinus anomalus Waters et al. 2003
- Taxocrinus macrodactylus Phillips 1841
- Taxocrinus stultus Whidborne 1896
- Taxocrinus telleri Springer, 1920
References
edit- See also List of crinoid genera
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