Democrinus Perrier, 1883

Roux, Michel, Martinez, Alain & Vizcaïno, Daniel, 2021, A diverse crinoid fauna (Echinodermata, Crinoidea) from the Lower Eocene of the Gulf of Languedoc (Corbières, Aude, southern France), Zootaxa 4963 (2), pp. 201-242 : 226

Genus Democrinus Perrier, 1883

Type species. Democrinus parfaiti Perrier, 1883 , Recent.

Remarks. In the absence of precise information on brachials and columnals that could clearly be attributed to them, and in view of the great variability of known external morphology in extant species ( Roux 1978b), the attribution of fossil species to this genus is based solely on the morphology of the proximal face of the radial circlet ( Roux et al. 2019). We consider that this generic attribution needs confirmation, awaiting data on brachials and columnals; for this reason, we here use open nomenclature, as? Democrinus .

Stratigraphical distribution. Ypresian–Recent, possibly already from Danian.