Blastoidea - Granatocrinida - Granatocrinidae

type species- Granatocrinus melonoides Meek & Worthen, 1869

Alternative spelling: Decemboblastus

Full reference: D. B. Macurda. 1977. Arcuoblastus and Decemoblastus, two new Mississippian blastoid genera from the Burlington Limestone, Iowa. Journal of Paleontology 51(6):1201-1214

Parent taxon: Granatocrinidae according to D. B. Macurda 1977

See also Sepkoski 2002 and Sevastopulo et al. 2008

Sister taxa: Carpenteroblastus, Cribroblastus, Cryptoblastus, Dentiblastus, Granatocrinus, Heteroblastus, Mesoblastus, Monadoblastus, Poroblastus, Ptychoblastus

Subtaxa: Decemoblastus melonoides

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Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Burlington; upper part of formation (Carboniferous of Iowa)

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