Crinoidea - Sagenocrinida - Sagenocrinitidae
Full reference: R. S. Bassler. 1938. Fossilium Catalogus. I: Animalia. Pars 83: Pelmatozoa Palaeozoica 1-194
Parent taxon: Sagenocrinitacea according to R. C. Moore and H. L. Strimple 1973
See also Lane and Webster 1966 and Ubaghs et al. 1978
Sister taxon: Anisocrinidae
Subtaxa: Forbesiocrinus Meristocrinus Sagenocrinites Trampidocrinus
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (1 collection), United States (3: Nevada)
• Carboniferous of Canada (1: Alberta), Iran (1), United States (6: Kentucky, Tennessee)
• Devonian of Australia (3), China (1)
• Silurian of Canada (7: Québec), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Tennessee)
Total: 26 collections including 29 occurrences