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Onychocrinus

Summary

Onychocrinus is an extinct genus of crinoids.

Onychocrinus
Temporal range: Carboniferous
Fossil of Onychocrinus species from Carboniferous of United States
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Echinodermata
Class:
Crinoidea
Order:
†Taxocrinida
Family:
†Synerocrinidae
Genus:
†Onychocrinus

Lyon and Casseday, 1860 [1]

Fossil records

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This genus is known in the fossil records of the Carboniferous period of United States and Canada (age range: 353.8 to 318.1 million years ago).[2]

Bibliography

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  • F. Springer. 1906. Discovery of the Disk of Onychocrinus, and Further Remarks on the Crinoidea Flexibilia. The Journal of Geology, Volume 14.
  • A. S. Horowitz. 1956. Fauna of Glen Dean Limestone (Chester) in Indiana and Northern Kentucky. unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Indiana University 1-449
  • N. G. Lane, J. L. Matthews, E. G. Driscoll and E. L. Yochelson. 1973. Paleontology and paleoecology of the Crawfordsville fossil site (Upper Osagian: Indiana). University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 99:1-141
  • W. I. Ausich. 1978. Community Organization, Paleontology, and Sedimentology of the Lower Mississippian Borden Delta Platform (Edwardsville Formation, Southern Indiana). Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Indiana University 1-433
  • T. W. Kammer and W. I. Ausich. 2007. Stratigraphical and geographical distribution of Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous) Crinoidea from Scotland. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 98:139-150

References

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  1. ^ Lyon, S. S. and S. A. Casseday. 1860. A synonymic list of the Echinodermata of the Palaeozoic rocks of North America. Proceedings of the American Academy of Science and Arts 4::282–304.
  2. ^ Paleobiology Database