Patelliocrinidae

Macrostylocrinus pristinus, from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Belongs within: Glyptocrinina.

The Patelliocrinidae are a group of crinoids with large radial plates known from the Upper Ordovician to the Middle Devonian (Ubaghs 1978b).

Characters (from Ubaghs 1978b): Calyx conical or subglobose to subcylindrical; basals usually three, unequal, azygous one in AE or ED interrays, occasionally all basals fused together; CD interray usually little or not at all differentiated in calyx; tegmen rarely preserved, probably incompetent, consisting of numerous plates differentiated into ambulacrals and interambulacrals when known. Free arms uniserial, biserial, or made of compound brachials. Column typically cylindrical.

Patelliocrinidae
|--Bolicrinus Witzke & Strimple 1981EB01
|--Boliviacrinus McIntosh 1988EB01
|--Krinocrinus Witzke & Strimple 1981EB01
|--Kylixocrinus Eckert 1984EB01
|--Thomasocrinus Witzke & Strimple 1981EB01
|--Patinocrinus Jaekel 1918J18, U78b
|--Patelliocrinus Angelin 1878EB01
| `--P. pachydactylus Angelin 1878U78b
|--Centriocrinus Bather 1899EB01 [=Centrocrinus Wachsmuth & Springer 1881 non Austin & Austin 1843U78b]
| `--*C. pentaspinus (Lyon 1869) [=Actinocrinus pentaspinus, *Centrocrinus pentaspinus]U78b
|--Laurelocrinus Springer 1926EB01
| `--*L. paulensis Springer 1926U78b
|--Eopatelliocrinus Brower 1973EB01
| |--*E. scyphogracilis Brower 1973U78b
| `--E. latibrachiatusBLWR78
|--Allocrinus Wachsmuth & Springer in Miller 1889EB01
| |--*A. typus Wachsmuth & Springer in Miller 1889U78b
| `--A. longidactylusU78b
|--Briarocrinus Angelin 1878EB01 [incl. Angelinocrinus Jaekel 1918U78b; Briarocrinidae]
| |--*B. inflatus Angelin 1878U78b
| `--B. angustus Angelin 1878 [=*Angelinocrinus angustus]U78b
`--Macrostylocrinus Hall 1852EB01 [incl. Loveniocrinus Jaekel 1918U78b]
|--*M. ornatus Hall 1852EB01
|--M. anglicus Jaekel 1918J18
|--*Loveniocrinus’ gotlandicus Jaekel 1918U78b
|--M. granulosusU78b
|--M. pristinusBLWR78
`--M. recumbensU78a

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[BLWR78] Brower, J. C., N. G. Lane & H. Wienberg Rasmussen. 1978. Postlarval ontogeny of fossil crinoids. In: Moore, R. C., & C. Teichert (eds) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt T. Echinodermata 2. Crinoidea vol. 1 pp. T244–T274. The Geological Society of America, Inc.: Boulder (Colorado), and The University of Kansas: Lawrence (Kansas).

[EB01] Eckert, J. D., & C. E. Brett. 2001. Early Silurian (Llandovery) crinoids from the Lower Clinton Group, western New York State. Bulletins of American Paleontology 360: 1–88.

[J18] Jaekel, O. 1918. Phylogenie und System der Pelmatozoen. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 3: 1–128.

[U78a] Ubaghs, G. 1978a. Skeletal morphology of fossil crinoids. In: Moore, R. C., & C. Teichert (eds) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt T. Echinodermata 2. Crinoidea vol. 1 pp. T58–T216. The Geological Society of America, Inc.: Boulder (Colorado), and The University of Kansas: Lawrence (Kansas).

[U78b] Ubaghs, G. 1978b. Camerata. In: Moore, R. C., & C. Teichert (eds) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt T. Echinodermata 2. Crinoidea vol. 2 pp. T408–T519. The Geological Society of America, Inc.: Boulder (Colorado), and The University of Kansas: Lawrence (Kansas).

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