Platycrinites testudo Campbell and Bein 1971 (Sea lily)

Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae

Full reference: K.S.W. Campbell and J. Bein. 1971. Some lower Carboniferous crinoids from New South Wales. Journal of Paleontology 45:419-436

Belongs to Platycrinites according to K.S.W. Campbell and J. Bein 1971

Sister taxa: Platycrinites crokeri, Platycrinites ellesmerense, Platycrinites halos, Platycrinites langbaensis, Platycrinites nikondaense, Platycrinites omanensis, Platycrinites vexabilis, Platycrinites wachsmuthi, Platycrinites wrighti

Type specimen: 18892 A.N.U., a calyx. Its type locality is North of R. Croker House, which is in a Hastarian/Chadian marine mudstone in the Goonoo Goonoo Mudstone Formation of Australia.

Ecology: stationary upper-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at North of R. Croker House

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