Sinocrinus Tien, 1926
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Genus Sinocrinus Tien, 1926
Type species: Sinocrinus microgranulatus Tien, 1926 = Sinocrinus granulatus ( Wanner, 1924) ; see discussion in Sheffield (2015); Sakmarian, Permian, China.
Included species: Sinocrinus asymmetricus Strimple, 1976 ; S. websteri sp. nov.; Sinocrinus cernuus ( Trautschold, 1867) ; Sinocrinus granulatus ( Wanner, 1924) ; Sinocrinus houkouensis Tien, 1924 ; Sinocrinus lichengensis Tien, 1924 ; Sinocrinus nodosus Tien, 1924 ; Sinocrinus obliquus ( Wanner, 1916) ; Sinocrinus sheareri Strimple & Watkins, 1969 ; Sinocrinus websteri sp. nov.
Diagnosis. —Aboral cup shape variable (low bowl, very low bowl, low cone), granulose plate sculpturing, circular to subpentalobate basal view outline of aboral cup, basal concavity present, infrabasal plates confined or not confined to basal concavity, infrabasal plates visible or not visible in lateral view, large basal plates, planate to slightly declinate radial facets, no posterior interray plates in aboral cup, distal spinose projection from axillary first primibrachial present or absent, second primibrachial and above biserial, circular proximal columnal.
Stratigraphic and geographic range. —Pennsylvanian, Moscovian, Permian, Cisuralian, Artinskian; China, Russia, Slovenia, Timor, USA.
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