Crinoidea - Calceocrinida - Calceocrinidae
Maintained (senior) homonym of Cremacrinus Jaekel 1918 (= now Dadocrinus)
Parent taxon: Calceocrinidae according to W. I. Ausich 1998
See also Ausich et al. 2018 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Anulocrinus, Calceocrinus, Catatonocrinus, Charactocrinus, Chirocrinus, Chiropinna, Corvucrinus, Cunctocrinus, Deltacrinus, Diaphorocrinus, Dolerocrinus, Eohalysiocrinus, Epihalysiocrinus, Espanocrinus, Grypocrinus, Halysiocrinus, Minicrinus, Paracremacrinus, Senariocrinus, Stibarocrinus, Synchirocrinus, Trypherocrinus
Subtaxa: Cremacrinus guttenbergensis Cremacrinus inaequalis
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Ordovician of Canada (8: Ontario collections), United States (28: Illinois, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, illinois)
Total: 36 collections including 59 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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