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Uintacrinus

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Uintacrinus
Temporal range: Cretaceous
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Uintacrinus
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  • U. socialis

Uintacrinus ("crinoid from the Uinta Mountains") is an extinct genus of crinoids from the Cretaceous of Kansas. It was unusual among crinoids because it had no stalk, and probably floated above the seafloor.[1] It lived in the Western Interior Seaway. This crinoid was a colonial animal with ten long arms each that it used to capture prey.[2]

Block at the AMNH preserving at least 65 U. socialis individuals. Collected in Kansas.

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  • Everhart, Mike "Notes on Uintacrinus socialis Grinnell" http://www.oceansofkansas.com/Uintacrinus.html
  • Bather, Francis Arthur (1895). "On Uintacrinus: a Morphological Study". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1895. illustrated by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge: 974–1004. Retrieved 2020-04-13.