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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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