Crinoidea - Comatulida - Calometridae

Full reference: T. F. Shibata and T. Oji. 2007. Kiimetra miocenica, a new genus and species of the family Calometridae (Echinodermata : Crinoidea) from the Middle Miocene of southwestern Japan. Journal of Paleontology 81(2):397-404

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

See also Shibata and Oji 2007

Sister taxa: Calometra, Gephyrometra, Neometra, Pectinometra, Reometra

Subtaxa: Kiimetra miocenica

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Type: Kiimetra miocenica

Ecology: facultatively mobile intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Torinosu Peninsula crinoids (Miocene to Miocene of Japan)

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