Culmicrinus elegans

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Dendrocrinida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Crinozoa Classis: Crinoidea Subclassis: † Cladida Infraclassis: †Cyathocrinina Ordo: †Dendrocrinida

Familia: Blothrocrinidae
Genus: †Culmicrinus
Species: †Culmicrinus elegans

Culmicrinus elegans (Wachsmuth & Springer, 1897)

Synonyms:

North America

Temporal range: Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous)

Wachsmuth, C. & Springer, F. 1897. The North American Crinoidea Camerata. Vol. II. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 21: 361–837. BHL Reference page.

Bassler R.S. and Moodey M.W., 1943. Bibliographic and Faunal Index of Paleozoic Pelmatozoan Echinoderms. Geological Society of America, 734 pages (Google books).
Lewis Anderson Cook, 2010. Systematics and evolutionary paleoecology of crinoids from the St. Louis Limestone (Mississippian, Meramecian) of the Illinois Basin. West Virginia University. Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. (West Virginia University research repository).

Culmicrinus elegans - Taxon details on Joshua Tree Earth and Space Museum, Lakeville, Indiana