Cicerocrinus

Cicerocrinus is an extinct genus of crinoids in the family Pisocrinidae. It is known from the Silurian of the United Kingdom. The type locality for C. elegans is Old Bridge near Ludlow.

Cicerocrinus
Temporal range: 425.6–419.2 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Echinodermata
Class:
Crinoidea
Order:
Disparida
Superfamily:
Pisocrinoidea
Family:
Pisocrinidae
Genus:
†Cicerocrinus

Species
  • †Cicerocrinus anglicus (Jaekel 1900)
  • †Cicerocrinus elegans Sollas 1900 (syn. Lagarocrinus tenuis Jaekel 1900)

See also

References
  1. Fossils in the Oxford University Museum.—II. On Two New Genera and Species of Crinoidea (Brahmacrinus ponderosus and Cicerocrinus elegans). WJ Sollas, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 1900


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