Crinoidea - Millericrinida - Apiocrinitidae
Parent taxon: Apiocrinitidae according to H. Hess 2012
See also Hess and Gale 2010, Hess and Messing 2011, Jäger 2010, Rasmussen 1961 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxon: Guettardicrinus
Subtaxa: Apiocrinites boissieri Apiocrinites gillieroni Apiocrinites negevensis Apiocrinites neocomiensis Apiocrinites oosteri Apiocrinites parkinsoni Apiocrinites renevieri Apiocrinites roissyanus Apiocrinites valangiensis Apiocrinus
Type: Encrinites parkinsoni
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of France (1 collection), Jamaica (1), Poland (2), Portugal (2), the United Kingdom (3)
• Jurassic of Ethiopia (1), France (4), Germany (1), Israel (1), Poland (1), Saudi Arabia (7), Somalia (2), the United Kingdom (6)
Total: 32 collections including 33 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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