Crinoidea - Comatulida - Bourgueticrinidae
Full reference: R. C. Moore. 1967. Unique stalked crinoids from Upper Cretaceous of Mississippi. The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions 17:1-35
Parent taxon: Bourgueticrinidae according to H. Hess and C. G. Messing 2011
See also Moore 1967 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Bourgueticrinus, Conocrinus, Democrinus
Subtaxa: Dunnicrinus aequalis Dunnicrinus mississippiensis
Type: Dunnicrinus mississippiensis
Ecology: facultatively mobile intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (1 collection)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (7), the Netherlands (3), United States (2: Mississippi)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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