Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
Alternative combination: Platycrinus burlingtonensis
Full reference: D.D. Owen and B.F. Shumard. 1850. Descriptions of fifteen new species of Crinoidea from the Subcarboniferous limestone of Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota in the years 1848-1849. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, ser. 2 2:57-70
Belongs to Platycrinites according to F. B. Meek and A. H. Worthen 1873
See also Owen and Shumard 1850
Sister taxa: Platycrinites crokeri, Platycrinites halos, Platycrinites irroratus, Platycrinites langbaensis, Platycrinites nikondaense, Platycrinites testudo, Platycrinites vexabilis, Platycrinites wachsmuthi, Platycrinites wrighti, Platycrinus parvinodus, Platycrinus peculiaris, Platycrinus illinoisensis, Platycrinus annosus
Ecology: stationary upper-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Indian Wells Canyon, Sacramento Mtns (Carboniferous of New Mexico)
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