title: Taxocrinus
text: # Taxocrinus
  
  Taxocrinus is an extinct genus of crinoids.
  
  ## Fossil records
  
  This genus is known in the fossil record from the Silurian period to the Carboniferous period (age range: from 428.2 to 326.4 million years ago). These fossils have been found in United Kingdom, United States, Australia, China, the Czech Republic and Germany.
  
  ## Species
  
  * Taxocrinus anomalus Waters et al. 2003
  * Taxocrinus macrodactylus Phillips 1841
  * Taxocrinus stultus Whidborne 1896
  * Taxocrinus telleri Springer, 1920
  