Crinoidea - Roveacrinida - Roveacrinidae
Synonym: Drepanocrinus Jaekel 1921
Parent taxon: Roveacrinidae according to J. Žítt et al. 2019
See also Hess and Messing 2011, Peck 1943, Rasmussen 1961 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Birgelenocrinus, Calvaticrinus, Discocrinus, Hyalocrinus, Lebenharticrinus, Orthogonocrinus, Platelicrinus, Plotocrinus, Poecilocrinus, Roveacrinoides, Scotocrinus, Styracocrinus, Veugelersia
Subtaxa: Roveacrinus alatus Roveacrinus bairstowi Roveacrinus communis Roveacrinus distinctus Roveacrinus euglypheus Roveacrinus geinitzi Roveacrinus multisignatus Roveacrinus occultus Roveacrinus pyramidalis Roveacrinus rugosus Roveacrinus spinalatus Roveacrinus spinosus
Type: Roveacrinus alata
Ecology: facultatively mobile low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Poland (1 collection)
• Cretaceous of the Czech Republic (1), Germany (2), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 6 collections including 12 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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