Platycrinites burlingtonensis
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Description
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Crinoidea
Subclass: Camerata
Order: Monobathrida
Family: Platycrinitidae
Genus: Platycrinites (Miller, 1821)
Species: Platycrinites burlingtonensis (Owen and Shumard, 1850)
Two small specimens of calyxes with one specimen having partially defined basal plates and the stem facet.
Specifications
| Object name | Platycrinites burlingtonensis |
|---|---|
| ID | UNB-2019-0520 |
| Legal status | Permanent collection |
| Category | Fossil |
| Classification | Domain: Eukaryote Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Crinozoa Class: Crinoidea Subclass: Camerata |
| Composition | Calcium carbonate |
| Age | Eon: Phanerozoic Era: Paleozoic Period: Carboniferous to Early Carboniferous Subperiod: Mississipian to Mississippian Epoch: Lower Mississipian Age: Osagean |
| Numeric age | 348 - 358 Mya |
| Origin | Lake Valley, New Mexico, U.S.A. |
| Pieces | 2 |
| Partial | No |
| Measurements |
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Map of Origin
Publications
- D.D. Owen and B.F. Shumard. 1850. Descriptions of fifteen new species of Crinoidea from the Subcarboniferous limestone of Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota in the years 1848-1849. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, ser. 2 2:57-70