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 bedfordensis, Platycrinites burkei, Platycrinites burlingtonensis, Platycrinites contritus, Platycrinites crokeri, Platycrinites graphicus, Platycrinites halos, Platycrinites illinoisensis, Platycrinites irroratus, Platycrinites laevis, Platycrinites langbaensis, Platycrinites lodensis, Platycrinites nikondaense, Platycrinites parvinodus, Platycrinites peculiaris, Platycrinites vexabilis, Platycrinites wachsmuthi, Platycrinites wrighti, Platycrinus annosus

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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