Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
Parent taxon: Platycrinitoidea according to G. D. Webster et al. 2025
See also Ausich and Roeser 2012, Campbell and Bein 1971, Mao et al. 2018, Moore and Jeffords 1968, Ubaghs et al. 1978, Webster and Jell 1992, Webster and Lane 1987, Webster and Sevastopulo 2007, Webster et al. 2009 and Webster and Webster 2012
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Brahmacrinus Camptocrinus Chinacrinus Collicrinus Elegantocrinus Eucladocrinus Neoplatycrinus Oenochoacrinus Platycion Platyclonus Platycrinites Platyparallelus Platyplateium Platystela Plemnocrinus Pleurocrinus
Type: Platycrinites
Ecology: stationary upper-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (23 collections), Canada (2: British Columbia, Nunavut), China (1), Indonesia (15), Oman (5), Serbia (1), Slovenia (1), Timor-Leste (1), United States (2: Alaska, Nevada)
• Carboniferous of Antarctica (2), Australia (3), Canada (2: Alberta), China (3), Iran (2), Ireland (2), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (192: Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia)
• Devonian of China (5), Czechia (2), Germany (4), Mongolia (1), United States (1: Missouri)
• Silurian of United States (1: Indiana)
Total: 279 collections including 454 occurrences