Family Bathycrinidae Bather 1899 (Feather star)
Crinoidea - Comatulida - Bathycrinidae
Synonym: Rhizocrinidae Jaekel 1894
Parent taxon: Bourgueticrinida according to H. Hess and C. G. Messing 2011
See also Donovan 1994, Rasmussen 1961 and Ubaghs et al. 1978
Sister taxa: Bourgueticrinidae, Conocrinoidea, Phrynocrinidae, Septocrinidae
Subtaxa: Bathycrininae Caledonicrininae Paraconocrinus
Type: Bathycrinus
Ecology: stationary upper-level epifaunal suspension feeder
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