Bistomiacystis schrantzi Sumrall and Deline 2009

Paracrinoidea - Platycystitida - Bistomiacystitidae

Full reference: C. D. Sumrall and B. Deline. 2009. A New Species of the Dual-mouthed Paracrinoid Bistomiacystis and a Redescription of the Edrioasteroid Edrioaster priscus from the Upper Ordovician Curdsville Member of the Lexington Limestone. Journal of Paleontology 83(1):135-139

Belongs to Bistomiacystis according to C. D. Sumrall and B. Deline 2009

Sister taxon: Bistomiacystis globosa

Type specimen: IP51985, a calyx. Its type locality is KY Route 34 Roadcut, near Danville, which is in a Soudleyan/Marshbrookian marine packstone/shale in the Lexington Limestone Formation of Kentucky.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at KY Route 34 Roadcut, near Danville

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