Cyathocrinites is an extinct genus of crinoids that lived from the Early Silurian to the Late Permian in Europe and North America.

Cyathocrinites
Temporal range: llandovery–Lopingian
Cyathocrinites multibrachiatus fossil
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Cyathocrinites

Miller, 1821
Species
  • Cyathocrinites multibrachiatus
  • Cyathocrinites simplex[1]

Sources

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  1. ^ Thomas W. Kammer; Edgar W. Roeser (2012). "Cladid Crinoids from the Late Kinderhookian Meadville Shale, Cuyahoga Formation of Ohio". Journal of Paleontology. 86 (3), pages 470–487, doi:10.1666/11-101.1
  • Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 167)
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