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Nielsenicrinus japonicus new species (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) from the Late Cretaceous of Japan and its paleobiogeographic implications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Tatsuo Oji ,
Manabu Kanoh ,
Seiichi Toshimitsu  and
Masayuki Tashiro
Tatsuo Oji
Affiliation:
Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560
Manabu Kanoh
Affiliation:
Mikasa City Museum, Ikushumbets, Mikasa 068-21, Japan
Seiichi Toshimitsu
Affiliation:
Geological Museum, Geological Survey of Japan, 1-1-3 Higashi, Tsukuba 305, Japan
Masayuki Tashiro
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Kochi University, Kochi 780, Japan
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Abstract

A new isocrinine species, Nielsenicrinus japonicus, is described from the Maastrichtian of western Kyushu, Japan. This is the first confirmed occurrence of this genus outside Europe. Three isocrinine genera, Nielsenicrinus, Cainocrinus, and Teliocrinus, have a common arrangement of ligamentary articulations in the primibrachials and secundibrachials. These taxa possibly constitute a single lineage since the Early Cretaceous through the Recent, and they were known only from Eurasia, or from Indian Ocean (Teliocrinus).

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 70 , Issue 6 , November 1996 , pp. 964 - 968
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