Crinoidea - Comatulida - Bourgueticrinidae
Synonym: Bourgueticrinus curvatus Nielsen 1913
Belongs to Bourgueticrinus according to V. G. Klikushin 1982
See also Hess and Messing 2011 and Rasmussen 1961
Sister taxa: Bourgueticrinus alabamensis, Bourgueticrinus baculatus, Bourgueticrinus bellus, Bourgueticrinus bruennichinielseni, Bourgueticrinus brydonei, Bourgueticrinus constrictus, Bourgueticrinus crassus, Bourgueticrinus cylindricus, 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:
• Paleocene of Denmark (1 collection), the Netherlands (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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