Crinoidea - Comatulida - Thalassometridae
Full reference: M. K. Eagle. 2007. New fossil crinoids (Articulata: Comatulida) from the Late Oligocene of the Pentland Hills and Hurstlea, South Canterbury, New Zealand. Records of the Auckland Museum 44:85-110
Belongs to Stenometra according to M. K. Eagle 2007
Sister taxon: Stenometra quinquecostata
Type specimen: AU19053. Its type locality is AU19053, Ardlogie Station lime-pit (J40/f053A), which is in a Waitakian carbonate limestone in the Otekaike Limestone Formation of New Zealand.
Ecology: facultatively mobile intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Waitakian of New Zealand (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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