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Platycrinitidae

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Platycrinitidae
Temporal range: Devonian–Permian [1]
Fossil specimens of Platycrinites hemisphaericus from United States, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
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Platycrinitidae

Bassler 1938

Platycrinitidae is an extinct family of Paleozoic stalked crinoids.[2]

Platycrinites hemisphaericus. Early Carboniferous, Muldraugh Formation, Indiana. At the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.

These stationary upper-level epifaunal suspension feeders lived during the Devonian, Permian and the Carboniferous periods, from 416.0 to 259.0 Ma.[1]

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