Metacrinus

Metacrinus
Plate from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (1904)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Crinoidea
Order: Isocrinida
Family: Isocrinidae
Genus: Metacrinus
Carpenter, 1882
Species
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Metacrinus is a genus of stalked crinoids in the family Isocrinidae. Members of this genus live on hard surfaces in deeper parts of the ocean. The genus has extant species and is also represented in the fossil record. Members of the genus grow to a maximum height of 60 centimetres (24 in) and are found in the eastern Pacific Ocean from Japan to Australia.

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