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
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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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