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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.

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Parent taxon
Echinodermata
Image
Feather Star (Lamprometra palmata).jpg
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taxon name
Pelmatozoa
taxon rank
subphylum
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  • System (Phylogeny)
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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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pelmatozoa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.