Crinoidea - Belemnocrinoidea - Synbathocrinidae
Parent taxon: Belemnocrinoidea according to G. D. Webster et al. 2025
See also Mao et al. 2018, Ubaghs et al. 1978, Webster 1987, Webster and Lane 1987, Webster et al. 2009 and Webster and Webster 2012
Sister taxa: Belemnocrinidae, Holynocrinidae, Perissocrinidae, Pygmaeocrinidae, Zophocrinidae
Subtaxa: Abyssocrinus Phimocrinus Ramacrinus Stylocrinus Synbathocrinus Taidocrinus Theloreus
Type: Synbathocrinus
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (8 collections), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (1), Greece (1), Oman (1)
• Carboniferous of Australia (1), China (2), Iran (2), Ireland (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (57: Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee)
• Devonian of Australia (1), Czechia (6), United States (6: New York, Tennessee)
• Silurian to Devonian of United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Australia (2), United States (3: Indiana, Oklahoma)
Total: 95 collections including 107 occurrences