Cupulocrinus sp.

 
scale in cms

CLASS - Crinoidea
ORDER - Cladida
FAMILY - Cupulocrinidae
GENUS/SPECIES - Cupulocrinus sp.

ROCK UNIT - Richmond Group

AGE - Upper Ordovician (445 million years old)

LOCALITY - Cincinnati, Ohio, USA


These tiny (note centimeter scale, above) crinoid crowns (cups with arms) represent one of the largest groups of crinoids found in Paleozoic rocks - the inadunates. However, only one genus of this group of crinoids survived the great End-Paleozoic extinction event.

PRI 42102


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