Pegocrinus Kirk 1940 (Sea lily)

Crinoidea - Dendrocrinida - Scytalocrinidae

Full reference: E. Kirk. 1940. Seven new genera of Carboniferous Crinoidea Inadunata. Journal of the Washington Academy of Science 30:321-334

Parent taxon: Scytalocrinidae according to G. Ubaghs et al. 1978

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Anemetocrinus, Atrapocrinus, Bollandocrinus, Corematocrinus, Haeretocrinus, Histocrinus, Hydriocrinus, Hypselocrinus, Julieticrinus, Linobrachiocrinus, Lorocrinus, Morrowcrinus, Omanicrinus, Ophiurocrinus, Phacelocrinus, Prininocrinus, Roemerocrinus, Scytalocrinus

Subtaxa: Pegocrinus bijugus

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Type: Poteriocrinus bijugus

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Pegocrinus in the database

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