Description
Malocystites Paracrinoid
- Malocystites murchisoni
- Ordovician Age
- Chazy Formation
- Laval, Quebec Canada
- This specimen comes from a softer shale, and most of these specimens come out of the matrix during excavation. Once found they are cleaned with micro air abrasives. This specimen measures .45″ wide.
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Paracrinoids are extinct marine animals that make up the class Paracrinoidea of the echinoderms (phylum Echinodermata), and are closely related to crinoids. They lived in shallow seas during the Early Ordovician through the Early Silurian.
Despite the taxon’s name, the paracrinoids are not closely related to crinoids.
