Styracocrinus peracutus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Roveacrinida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Crinozoa Classis: Crinoidea Subclassis: Articulata Ordo: †Roveacrinida

Familia: †Roveacrinidae
Subfamilia: †Styracocrininae
Genus: †Styracocrinus
Species: †Styracocrinus peracutus

Name

• Styracocrinus peracutus (Peck, 1943): 463
  • Original genus: Drepanocrinus
  • Geological age: Cretaceous; upper Albian to lower Cenomanian
  • Type locality: Grayson Formation, Grayson Bluff, Roanoke, Denton County, Texas
  • Typus: holotype specimen figured in Pl. 76, fig. 21, University of Missouri Collection, not found
  • Distribution: Texas, Morocco, UK, Germany, France
  • ZooBank: 839DC5E2-CE96-4FB1-94C3-6D36818AC530

References

• Peck, R.E. 1943. Lower Cretaceous crinoids from Texas. Journal of paleontology, 17(5): 451–475. DOI: 10.2307/1299182 JSTOR Reference page.  [See p. 463, original description as Drepanocrinus peracutus]

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• Gale, A.S. 2020. Roveacrinidae (Crinoidea, Articulata) from the Cenomanian and Turonian of North Africa (Agidir Basin and Anti-Atlas, Morocco, and Central Tunisia): biostratigraphy and taxonomy. Acta Geologica Polonica, 70(3): 273–310. DOI: 10.24425/agp.2019.126458 Reference page.  [See p. 290, supplemental description, types update]
• Peck, R.E. 1955. Cretaceous microcrinoids from England. Journal of paleontology, 29(6): 1019–1029. JSTOR Reference page.  [See p. 1022, as Styracocrinus peracutus, generic re-assignment from synonymy of original genus]

Links

• BHL bibliography
• Styracocrinus peracutus – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Styracocrinus peracutus.
• ION