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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Class: | Crinoidea |
| Order: | †Taxocrinida |
| Family: | †Taxocrinidae |
| Genus: | †Taxocrinus Phillips, 1843 |
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.1
Species
- Taxocrinus anomalus Waters et al. 2003
- Taxocrinus macrodactylus Phillips 1841
- Taxocrinus stultus Whidborne 1896
- Taxocrinus telleri Springer, 1920