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Discocrinus integer Hess and Gale 2010 (Sea lily)

Crinoidea - Articulata - Roveacrinidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 305916

Full reference: H. Hess and A. S. Gale. 2010. Crinoids from the Shenley Limestone (Albian) of Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, UK. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 8(3):427-447

Belongs to Discocrinus according to H. Hess and A. S. Gale 2010

Sister taxon: Discocrinus catastomus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Double Arches [Shenley Limestone], which is in an Albian marine wackestone in the Shenley Limestone Formation of the United Kingdom

Ecology: stationary upper-level epifaunal suspension feeder