Family Notocrinidae Mortensen 1918 (Feather star)

Crinoidea - Comatulida - Notocrinidae

Parent taxon: Notocrinoidea according to H. Hess and C. G. Messing 2011

See also Eagle 2009, Jagt 1999 and Meyer and Oji 1993

Sister taxon: Aporometridae

Subtaxa: Castaneametra Glenotremites Loriolometra Notocrinus Remesimetra Schlueterometra Semiometra Zelandimetra

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Type: Notocrinus

Ecology: facultatively mobile intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Waitakian of New Zealand (4 collections)

• Eocene of Antarctica (2)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (2)

• Cretaceous of Belgium (5), Czechia (3), France (4), the Netherlands (3), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: Texas)

• Jurassic of Germany (1)

Total: 29 collections including 42 occurrences

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