Crinoidea - Comatulida - Conometridae
Parent taxon: Tropiometroidea according to T. K. Baumiller and R. E. Fordyce 2018
See also Eagle 2007, Eagle 2009, Hess and Messing 2011 and Jagt 1999
Sister taxa: Asterometridae, Calometridae, Charitometridae, Maorimetridae, Pseudoconometridae, Pterocomidae, Ptilometridae, Thalassometridae, Tropiometridae
Subtaxa: Amphorometra Bruennichometra Conometra Cypelometra Moanametra Rautangaroa Vicetiametra
Type: Conometra
Ecology: facultatively mobile intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Waitakian of New Zealand (4 collections)
• Eocene of the United Kingdom (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (1)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (2), Germany (1), the Netherlands (2)
Total: 11 collections including 17 occurrences