Camerata (subclass)
| Camerata Temporal range: Middle Ordovician–Late Permian |
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| Rhodocrinus serpens, a sea lily of the family Rhodocrinidae, 16mm measured along the stem fragment and including cup and arms, collected at the Gilmore City Formation, near Gilmore City Iowa, USA, from the Lower Mississippian Carboniferous (Tournaisian) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Subphylum: | Crinozoa |
| Class: | Crinoidea |
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†Camerata Wachsmuth and Springer (1885) |
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†Cladida
†Diplobathrida
†Monobathrida
The Camerata or camerate crinoids are an extinct subclass of Paleozoic stalked crinoids. They originated during the Early Ordovician and became extinct during the end-Permian mass extinction, and reached their maximum diversity during the Mississippian.
Anatomically, they are distinguished by:
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