Pelmatozoa

Pelmatozoa was once a clade of Phylum Echinodermata. It included stalked and sedentary echinoderms. The main class of Pelmatozoa were the Crinoidea which includes sea lily and feather star.

Pelmetazoa is no longer a classification of Echinodermata.[1]

Pelmetazoa
Temporal range: Middle CambrianRecent
Scientific classificationEdit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Clade: Ambulacraria
Phylum: Echinodermata
Groups included
Crinoidea
Blastozoa

Pelmatozoa s.l. (sensu lato) or Crinozoa s.l., were in some systems a large taxon, sometimes considered a subphylum of echinoderms.

The majority of Pelmatozoa s.l. consisted of the extinct taxon Blastozoa.

Pelmatozoa s.s. (sensu stricto) sometimes only include Crinoidea.

  1. ^ Fell, Howard B. "Pelmatozoa". AccessScience, McGraw Hill Education. doi:10.1036/1097-8542.495400. Retrieved 27 September 2014. Formerly treated as a formal unit of classification with the rank of subphylum, pelmatozoans are now realized to be a heterogeneous assemblage of forms with similar habits but dissimilar ancestry...

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