Marsupites lamberti Besairie 1936 (Feather star)

Crinoidea - Comatulida - Marsupitidae

Belongs to Marsupites according to J. W. Haggart and R. Graham 2018

See also Hess and Messing 2011 and Rasmussen 1961

Sister taxon: Marsupites testudinarius

Ecology: facultatively mobile intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Nanaimo River island, downstream from Elkhorn Creek (Cretaceous of British Columbia)

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