Cyathocrinites

Cyathocrinites
Temporal range: Early Silurian - Late Permian
Cyathocrinites multibrachiatus fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Subphylum: Crinozoa
Class: Crinoidea
Subclass: Camerata
Order: Cladida
Family: †Cyathocrinitidae
Genus: †Cyathocrinites
Miller, 1821
Species
  • †Cyathocrinites multibrachiatus
  • †Cyathocrinites simplex[1]

Cyathocrinites is an extinct genus of crinoids that lived from the Early Silurian to the Late Permian in Europe and North America.

Sources

  1. ↑ Thomas W. Kammer; Edgar W. Roeser (2012). "Cladid Crinoids from the Late Kinderhookian Meadville Shale, Cuyahoga Formation of Ohio". Journal of Paleontology. 86 (3), pages 470–487, doi:10.1666/11-101.1
  • Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 167)


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