†Hemicrinus astierianus d'Orbigny 1850 (Sea lily)
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Crinoidea - Cyrtocrinida - Sclerocrinidae
Synonym: Cyrtocrinus granulatus Jaekel 1891
Belongs to Hemicrinus according to H. W. Rasmussen 1961
See also Hess and Messing 2011 and Pisera and Dzik 1979
Sister taxon: Hemicrinus tithonicus
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Asteroidea, Hauterivian,St. Pierre de Chérennes, Isère (Cretaceous of France)
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