09137 - Wide 4.98 Inch Eocrinoid (Ascocystites) Plate - Lower Ordovician

†Ascocystites sp, Barrande 1887
Eocrinoidea - Ascocystitida

Parent taxon: Ascocystitida according to J. J. Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Cambrocrinus, Eocystites, Eustypocystis, Nolichuckia, Pareocrinus

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Environments: coastal, transition zone/lower shoreface

Age range: 460.9 to 457.5 Ma

Distribution:

• Ordovician of the Czech Republic, Morocco.

Ascocystites sp: Fossilworks (Paleobiology Database)