Hexedriocystis inexpectans Sumrall and Zamora 2011

Eocrinoidea

Full reference: C. D. Sumrall and S. Zamora. 2011. Ordovician edrioasteroids from Morocco: faunal exchanges across the Rheic Ocean. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 9(3):425-454

Belongs to Hexedriocystis according to C. D. Sumrall and S. Zamora 2011

Sister taxon: Hexedriocystis mimus

Type specimen: MHNM16034.5. Its type locality is Bou Nemrou echinoderms, Zagora Lc2, which is in a Dobrotivian coastal sandstone/siltstone in the Izegguirene Formation of Morocco.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Bou Nemrou echinoderms, Zagora Lc2

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