Taxocrinus

Taxocrinus
Temporal range: Silurian - Carboniferous
Fossil of Taxocrinus species (on the right)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Crinoidea
Order: Taxocrinida
Family: Taxocrinidae
Genus: Taxocrinus
Phillips, 1843

Taxocrinus is an extinct genus of crinoids.

Fossil records

This genus is known in the fossil record from the Silurian period to the Carboniferous period (age range: from 428.2 to 326.4 million years ago). These fossils have been found in United Kingdom, United States, Australia, China, the Czech Republic and Germany.[1]

Species

  • Taxocrinus anomalus Waters et al. 2003
  • Taxocrinus macrodactylus Phillips 1841
  • Taxocrinus stultus Whidborne 1896

References

  1. ↑ Fossilworks


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