Crinoidea - Comatulida - Comatulidae

Synonyms: Actinomedra Carpenter 1881, Actinomerta Carpenter 1881, Actinometer Carpenter 1881, Actinometra Carpenter 1881, Actrinometra Carpenter 1881, Actynometra Carpenter 1881, Aetinometra Carpenter 1881

Parent taxon: Comatulini according to M. M. Summers et al. 2014

See also Hess and Messing 2011

Sister taxon: Comactinia

Subtaxa: Actinometra difficilis Actinometra guirandi Actinometra nigra Comatula (Alecto) Comatula (Ophiocrinus) Comatula imperialis Comatula indica Comatula jacquinoti Comatula solaris Comatula tenella

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Type: Comatula solaris

Ecology: facultatively mobile intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Milburn Quarry (Oligocene of New Zealand)

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