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Alphacrinus new genus and origin of the disparid clade

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Thomas E. Guensburg
Thomas E. Guensburg*
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Sciences Division, Rock Valley College, 3301 North Mulford Road, Rockford, Illinois 61114, USA,
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Abstract

Alphacrinus mansfieldi new genus and species from the Middle Tremadoc Series (Early Ibexian), near the base of the Ordovician, is the oldest known disparid crinoid. A new family, Alphacrinidae, receives this monospecific genus. Alphacrinus's character mosaic includes primitive traits unknown among other disparids, auguring for disparid origin from a more complexly plated, less standardized antecedent, and echoing the evolutionary progression documented for camerates and cladids. Disparids are diagnosed as those crinoids expressing an arm-like branch from the C ray. Morphologic progression indicates this distinctive trait evolved by modification of CD interray plates, not as an outgrowth from the C ray.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 84 , Issue 6 , November 2010 , pp. 1209 - 1216
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