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Bathycrinidae

Bathycrinidae

Overview

Bathycrinidae Bather, 1899

Common Name: Sea Lily

Extant/Extinct

Key morphological features: Long stalked sea lily with five arms.

        SIZE:

Paleoecology:

        MOBILITY: Stationary

        FEEDING MODE: Suspension Feeder

        HABITAT: Epifaunal

Sources:

Breimer, A., 1978. General Features of Crinoidea in Moore, R. C., ed., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part T, Echinodermata 2, Volume 1. The University of Kansas and Geological Society of America. 401 pp.


Genera of Bathycrinidae present in the Cretaceous of the Western Interior Seaway