Cherbonniericrinus, Roux & Eléaume & Améziane, 2019

Roux, Michel, Eléaume, Marc & Améziane, Nadia, 2019, A revision of the genus Conocrinus d’Orbigny, 1850 (Echinodermata, Crinoidea, Rhizocrinidae) and its place among extant and fossil crinoids with a xenomorphic stalk, Zootaxa 4560 (1), pp. 51-84 : 75-76

Genus Cherbonniericrinus n. gen.

Type species. Conocrinus cherbonnieri Roux, 1976 .

Etymology. Genus dedicated in memory of Gustave Cherbonnier (1909–1995), who was an authority of echinoderms at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris.

Diagnosis. Theca devoid of a proximale, aboral cup without visible sutures, marked constriction between cup base and proximalmost stalk, distal face of aboral cup without conspicuous curving upwards of inner muscular areas and with short interradial crest (never process or thorn), subcrescentic arm insertion as wide as radial, ratio of central depression to distal radial circlet diameter 0.50 to 0.60, articulation IBr1+2 with trifascial pattern. Arms unknown. Recent, but there may be records from the Danian onwards.