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Uintacrinidae

Uintacrinidae

Overview

Uintacrinidae Grinnel, 1876

Common Name: Sea Lily

Extant/Extinct

Key morphological features: These sea lilies lack a stem and are sometimes called 'floating crinoids'. It is thought they floated in the water column and could have connected together to form rafts.

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Paleoecology:

        MOBILITY: Mobile

        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 Uintacrinidae present in the Cretaceous of the Western Interior Seaway