Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
Full reference: T. W. Broadhead and H. L. Strimple. 1977. Permian platycrinitid crinoids from Arctic North America. Canadian Journal Earth Science 14:1166-1175
Belongs to Platycrinites according to T. W. Broadhead and H. L. Strimple 1977
Sister taxa: Platycrinites crokeri, Platycrinites halos, Platycrinites langbaensis, Platycrinites nikondaense, Platycrinites omanensis, Platycrinites testudo, Platycrinites vexabilis, Platycrinites wachsmuthi, Platycrinites wrighti
Type specimen: GSC 34066, a calyx. Its type locality is East Cape, Ellesmere Island, which is in a Capitanian marine siliciclastic in the Trold Fiord Formation of Canada.
Ecology: stationary upper-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at East Cape, Ellesmere Island
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