Crinoidea - Comatulida

Full reference: M. J. Simms. 1988. An intact comatulid crinoid from the Toarcian of Southern Germany. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 140:1-7

Parent taxon: Comatulidina according to H. Hess and C. G. Messing 2011

See also Sepkoski 2002 and Simms 1988

Sister taxa: Antedonoidea, Atelecrinoidea, Atopocrinidae, Comatulidia, Jaekelometridae, Mariametroidea, Microcrinus, Notocrinoidea, Paracomatulacea, Paracomatuloidea, Solanocrinitoidea, Tropiometroidea, Uintacrinoidea

Subtaxa: Procomaster pentadactylus

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Type: Procomaster pentadactylus

Ecology: facultatively mobile intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Zell, J. Fischer quarry, epsilon II-4 (SMNS collection) (Jurassic of Germany)

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