†family Cainocrinidae Simms 1988 (Sea lily)
Crinoidea - Isocrinida - Cainocrinidae
Parent taxon: Isocrinina according to H. Hess and C. G. Messing 2011
See also Donovan 1994
Sister taxa: Isocrinidae, Isselicrinidae, Proisocrinidae
Subtaxa: Cainocrinus Nielsenicrinus Teliocrinus
Type: Cainocrinus
Ecology: stationary upper-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Japan (1 collection)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of France (1), the United Kingdom (3)
• Paleocene of Denmark (2)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (2)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (2), Germany (1), Japan (1), the Netherlands (2), Poland (3)
Total: 19 collections including 20 occurrences