Craniata - Craniida - Craniidae
Parent taxon: Craniidae according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Hertlein and Grant IV 1944, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Acanthocrania, Ancistrocrania, Celidocrania, Conocrania, Craniscus, Danocrania, Deliella, Isocrania, Lepidocrania, Mesocrania, Nematocrania, Neocrania, Orthisocrania, Petrocrania, Philhedra, Pseudocrania, Venetocrania, Westralicrania, Xenocrania
Subtaxa: Crania (Lissocrania) Crania altivertes Crania anticostiana Crania antiqua Crania austriaca Crania badensis Crania californica Crania calymene Crania chesterensis Crania columbiana Crania craniolaris Crania hawaiiensis Crania huttoni Crania indonesiensis Crania kirkbyi Crania laevis Crania lamellosa Crania missouriensis Crania patagonica Crania permica Crania philippinensis Crania pourtalesi Crania proavia Crania reposita Crania roseradiata Crania rostrata Crania starhembergensis Crania subrostrata Crania suessi Crania trigonalis Crania valdiviae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (1 collection), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Poland (2)
• Eocene of New Zealand (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Denmark (11)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (1), the Czech Republic (2), Denmark (3), France (1), Germany (2), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Tennessee)
• Jurassic of France (4), Germany (1), Portugal (1), Romania (1)
• Triassic of Austria (1), China (1), Hungary (2), Italy (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)
• Permian of Greenland (2), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (5: Alaska, Texas)
• Carboniferous of Ireland (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (23: Alabama, Alaska, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas)
• Devonian of Canada (3: New Brunswick, Yukon, Yukon Territory), United States (12: Alaska, Colorado, New York)
• Silurian of Sweden (1)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Minnesota)
• Ordovician of Canada (1: Quebec)
Total: 100 collections including 107 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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