Marsupites
Extinct genus of crinoids
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Marsupites is an extinct genus of stalkless crinoids from the Santonian stage of the Late Cretaceous.[1]
| Marsupites Temporal range: Santonian ~ | |
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| Marsupites testudinarius fossil | |
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| Order: | Uintacrinida |
| Genus: | Marsupites |
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Biostratigraphic significance
The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) had provisionally assigned the extinction of Marsupites testudinarius as the defining biological marker for the start of the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous, 83.6 ± 0.2 million years ago, until a new final definition was eventually ratified in 2022, based instead primarily on magnetostratigraphy.
Distribution
Fossils of the genus have been found in:[1]
- Lipnik, Poland[2]
- Haslam Formation, British Columbia, Canada[3]
