Saccocoma

Saccocoma
Temporal range: Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Subphylum: Crinozoa
Class: Crinoidea
Order: Roveacrinida
Genus: †Saccocoma
Species

† Saccocoma alpina
† Saccocoma pectinata

Saccocoma is an extinct genus of crinoids that lived from the Late Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous in Europe and North America. It contains at least two species.[1]

Sources

  1. ↑ "Floating Crinoid Saccocoma pectinata from Solnhofen". Fossil Mall. Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
  • Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 170)


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