Crinoidea - Comatulida - Bourgueticrinidae
Synonyms: Mesocrinus Carpenter 1881, Metapiocrinus Jaekel 1918, Volvola Valette 1917
Parent taxon: Bourgueticrinidae according to H. Hess and C. G. Messing 2011
See also Rasmussen 1961 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Conocrinus, Democrinus, Dunnicrinus
Subtaxa: Bourgueticrinus alabamensis 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
Type: Apiocrinites ellipticus
Ecology: facultatively mobile intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of Germany (1 collection)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1), the Netherlands (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Poland (1)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (4), the Czech Republic (2), France (33), Germany (4), Poland (8), United States (1: Alabama)
Total: 56 collections including 70 occurrences
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