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 bedfordensis, Platycrinites burkei, Platycrinites contritus, Platycrinites crokeri, Platycrinites graphicus, Platycrinites halos, Platycrinites illinoisensis, Platycrinites irroratus, Platycrinites laevis, Platycrinites langbaensis, Platycrinites lodensis, Platycrinites nikondaense, Platycrinites parvinodus, Platycrinites peculiaris, Platycrinites testudo, Platycrinites vexabilis, Platycrinites wachsmuthi, Platycrinites wrighti, 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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