Crinoidea - Comatulida - Maorimetridae
Full reference: M. K. Eagle. 2009. New Comatulid Crinoids From the Meyers Pass Limestone Member (Waitakian (Chattian)) of the Pentland Hills and Hurstlea, South Canterbury, New Zealand. Records of the Auckland Museum 45:101-129
Belongs to Maorimetra according to M. K. Eagle 2009
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: GS1156.30. Its type locality is GS11156, Ardlogie Station lime-pit (J40/f6636), which is in a Waitakian carbonate limestone in the Otekaike Limestone Formation of New Zealand.
Ecology: facultatively mobile intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Waitakian of New Zealand (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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