Uintacrinidae
- Phylum: Echinodermata
- Class: Crinoidea
- Order: Uintacrinida
- Family: 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.
