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New flexible crinoids from the Bangor Limestone (Mississippian) of Tennessee

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Larry W. Knox  and
G. Wayne Kendrick
Larry W. Knox
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, Box 5125, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville 38505
G. Wayne Kendrick
Affiliation:
202 Oldwood Road, Huntsville, Alabama 35811
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Abstract

New flexible crinoids referable to Taxocrinus Phillips and Onychocrinus Lyon and Casseday are made known from Carboniferous (Mississippian, Chesterian) strata of Tennessee. Taxocrinus strimplei n. sp. and Onychocrinus sp. A are reported from a single locality in the Bangor Limestone in Cumberland County, east-central Tennessee. Specimens of both species are characterized by having fewer numbers of brachials than any species yet referred to either genus. Both the evolutionary development of their brachial series and their stratigraphic position suggest that these species are at or near the end of lineages of these two genera.

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Research Article
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 61 , Issue 1 , January 1987 , pp. 122 - 129
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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