Apiocrinites Miller 1821 (Sea lily)

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

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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

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