Scytalocrinus

Scytalocrinus; Temporal range: Carboniferous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Fossil of Scytalocrinus from Carboniferous of the 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

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

References

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.
Paleobiology Database

See also List of crinoid genera

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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