†Loriolometra Jagt 1999 (Feather star)
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Crinoidea - Comatulida - Notocrinidae
Full reference: J. Jagt. 1999. Late Cretaceous- Early Palaeogene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and northeast Belgium - Part 2: Crinoids. Scripta Geologica 116:59-255
Parent taxon: Notocrinidae according to H. Hess and C. G. Messing 2011
See also Jagt 1999, Rasmussen 1961 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Glenotremites, Notocrinus, Remesimetra, Schlueterometra, Semiometra, Zelandimetra
Subtaxa: Loriolometra retzii
Type: Comaster retzii
Ecology: facultatively mobile intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Loriolometra in the database
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