Crinoidea - Roveacrinida - Saccocomidae
Alternative spelling: Saccosoma
Synonyms: Eothrix Lombard 1945, Lombardia Bronnimann 1955, Saccocoma (Saccoma) Jaekel 1918, Saccoma Jaekel 1918
Parent taxon: Saccocominae according to H. Hess and C. G. Messing 2011
See also Kroh and Lukeneder 2009, Pisera and Dzik 1979, Rasmussen 1961 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxon: Crassicoma
Subtaxa: Saccocoma alpina Saccocoma bajeri Saccocoma longipinna Saccocoma quenstedti Saccocoma tenella Saccocoma vernioryi
Type: Comatula tenella
Ecology: stationary upper-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Bulgaria (1 collection), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (3), Madagascar (1), Tunisia (4)
• Jurassic of Algeria (9), Austria (3), Bulgaria (4), Cuba (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (3), Germany (19), Poland (4), Slovakia (1), Ukraine (1)
• Triassic of Norway (1)
Total: 57 collections including 60 occurrences
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