Placometra Jagt 1999 (Feather star)

Crinoidea - Comatulida - Pterocomidae

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: Pterocomidae according to H. Hess and C. G. Messing 2011

See also Rasmussen 1961 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Atuatucametra, Comaturella, Rhodanometra

Subtaxa: Placometra laticirra Placometra mortenseni Placometra scutata

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Type: Placometra mortenseni

Ecology: facultatively mobile intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Belgium (4 collections), Germany (1), the Netherlands (2), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 8 collections including 10 occurrences

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