Crinoidea - Comatulida - Bourgueticrinidae
Alternative combination: Rhizocrinus alabamensis
Belongs to Bourgueticrinus according to H. W. Rasmussen 1961
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915
Sister taxa: Bourgueticrinus baculatus, Bourgueticrinus bellus, Bourgueticrinus bruennichinielseni, Bourgueticrinus brydonei, Bourgueticrinus constrictus, Bourgueticrinus crassus, Bourgueticrinus cylindricus, Bourgueticrinus danicus, Bourgueticrinus elegans, Bourgueticrinus ellipticus, Bourgueticrinus fischeri, Bourgueticrinus fritillus, Bourgueticrinus globularis, Bourgueticrinus granulosus, Bourgueticrinus hagenowii, Bourgueticrinus hureae, Bourgueticrinus maximus, Bourgueticrinus minutus, Bourgueticrinus naidini, Bourgueticrinus oosteri, Bourgueticrinus papilliformis, Bourgueticrinus succinctus, Bourgueticrinus sulcatus, Bourgueticrinus tenuis, Bourgueticrinus utriculatus, Conocrinus lamberti, Conocrinus welschi
Ecology: facultatively mobile intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Livingstone (Cretaceous of Alabama)
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