Scytalocrinus

Scytalocrinus is an extinct genus of crinoids.

Scytalocrinus Temporal range: Carboniferous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fossil of S. decadactylus, University of Michigan Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Echinodermata
Subphylum:	Crinozoa
Class:	Crinoidea
Subclass:	Cladida
Order:	Dendrocrinida
Family:	Scytalocrinidae
Genus:	Scytalocrinus Wachsmuth and Springer, 1880 [1]

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

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

• See also List of crinoid genera