Crinoidea - Ampelocrinida - Calceolispongiidae
Synonym: Dinocrinus Wanner 1916
Full reference: R. Etheridge Jr. 1915. Western Australian Carboniferous fossils, chiefly from Mount Marmion, Lennard River, West Kimberley. Western Australia Geological Survey Bulletin 58:7-59
Parent taxon: Calceolispongiidae according to G. D. Webster and D. W. Webster 2012
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Willink 1979
Sister taxa: Allosocrinus, Jimbacrinus, Metacalceolispongia
Subtaxa: Calceolispongia abundans Calceolispongia aculeata Calceolispongia cornuta Calceolispongia cracowensis Calceolispongia diemenensis Calceolispongia digitata Calceolispongia gerthi Calceolispongia hindei Calceolispongia kalewaensis Calceolispongia lizziensis Calceolispongia mammeata Calceolispongia nodosa Calceolispongia spinosa Calceolispongia stephensi Calceolispongia teicherti Calceolispongia ulladullensis
Type: Calceolispongia hindei
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (45 collections), Indonesia (5), New Zealand (1)
• Carboniferous of India (1)
Total: 52 collections including 62 occurrences
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