Saccocoma Agassiz 1836 (Sea lily)

Crinoidea - Roveacrinida - Saccocomidae

Alternative spelling: Saccosoma

Synonyms: Eothrix Lombard 1945, Lombardia Bronnimann 1955, Saccocoma (Saccoma) Jaekel 1918, Saccoma Jaekel 1918

Parent taxon: Saccocominae according to H. Hess and C. G. Messing 2011

See also Kroh and Lukeneder 2009, Rasmussen 1961 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxon: Crassicoma

Subtaxa: Saccocoma alpina Saccocoma bajeri Saccocoma longipinna Saccocoma quenstedti Saccocoma tenella Saccocoma vernioryi

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Type: Comatula tenella

Ecology: stationary upper-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Bulgaria (1 collection), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (3), Tunisia (4)

• Jurassic of Algeria (9), Austria (3), Bulgaria (4), Cuba (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (3), Germany (19), Poland (3), Slovakia (1), Ukraine (1)

• Triassic of Norway (1)

Total: 55 collections including 57 occurrences

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