Crinoidea - Isocrinida - Pentacrinitidae
Full reference: M. Yokoyama. 1911. Some Tertiary fossils from the Miike coal-field. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University, Tokyo 27:1-16
Belongs to Pentacrinus according to M. Yokoyama 1911
See also Nagao 1928
Sister taxa: Pentacrinus alternicirrus, Pentacrinus amoenus, Pentacrinus asteriscus, Pentacrinus bavaricus, Pentacrinus crassus, Pentacrinus decorus, Pentacrinus fuchsii, Pentacrinus muelleri, Pentacrinus shahuensis, Pentacrinus shastensis, Pentacrinus subcrenatus, Pentacrinus tirolensis, Pentacrinus tuberculatus, Pentacrinus whitei
Type specimen: Its type locality is Manda, Miike Coal-field (403 feet depth), which is in a Bartonian marine sandstone in Japan
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of Japan (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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