Parent taxon: Cheirocrinidae according to C. R. C. Paul and S. V. Rozhnov 2016
See also Regnéll 1945 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Acanthalepis, Cheirocystella, Cheirocystis, Coronocystis, Hadrocystis, Homocystites, Leptocystis, Sprinkleocystis
Subtaxa: Cheirocrinus chrysalis Cheirocrinus constrictus Cheirocrinus dilatatus Cheirocrinus holmi Cheirocrinus leuchtenbergi Cheirocrinus logani Cheirocrinus nodosus Cheirocrinus penniger
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Silurian of the United Kingdom (1 collection), United States (6: New York)
• Dobrotivian of the Czech Republic (1)
• Chazyan of Canada (2: Quebec)
• Arenig of France (1), Sweden (1)
• Ordovician of Belgium (1), Canada (8: Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), the Czech Republic (3), France (1), Norway (2), Sweden (17), Thailand (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (11: Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Oklahoma)
• Tremadoc of France (6)
Total: 67 collections including 69 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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