Family Bourgueticrinidae Loriol 1882 (Feather star)

Crinoidea - Comatulida - Bourgueticrinidae

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

See also Ciampaglio et al. 2007, Clark and Twitchell 1915, Rasmussen 1961 and Ubaghs et al. 1978

Sister taxa: Bathycrinidae, Phrynocrinidae, Septocrinidae

Subtaxa: Bourgueticrinus Conocrinus Democrinus Dunnicrinus

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Type: Bourgueticrinus

Ecology: facultatively mobile intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Eocene of France (7 collections), Germany (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (4: North Carolina, South Carolina)

• Paleocene of Denmark (1), the Netherlands (1), United States (2: New Jersey)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (1), Poland (1)

• Cretaceous of Belgium (11), the Czech Republic (2), France (33), Germany (4), the Netherlands (3), Poland (8), United States (3: Alabama, Mississippi)

Total: 84 collections including 107 occurrences

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