Crinoidea - Pisocrinida - Pisocrinidae
Parent taxon: Pisocrinida according to W. I. Ausich and P. Copper 2010
See also Fearnhead 2008, Goldring 1936, Ubaghs et al. 1978 and Webster and Rakhmonov 2009
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Calycanthocrinus Cicerocrinus Jaekelicrinus Metaffinocrinus Pisocrininae Pisocrinus Platyfundocrinus Playfordicrinus Polygonocrinus Psilocrinus Retusocrinus Schedexocrinus Separocrinus Simocrinus Triacrinus Zeusocrinus
Type: Pisocrininae
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of United States (2: Nevada collections)
• Carboniferous of United States (3: Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma)
• Devonian of Australia (8), the Czech Republic (9), Germany (2), Morocco (2), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (3), Tajikistan (1), Ukraine (1), Uzbekistan (1)
• Silurian of Australia (8), Canada (2: British Columbia, Quebec), China (2), the Czech Republic (2), Poland (1), Sweden (4), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (8), United States (36: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Wisconsin)
Total: 97 collections including 127 occurrences