Crinoidea - Cladida - Erisocrinidae
Parent taxon: Erisocrinoidea according to G. D. Webster et al. 2025
See also Burke 1977, Mao et al. 2018, Ubaghs et al. 1978 and Webster 2006
Sister taxa: Arkacrinidae, Catacrinidae, Graphiocrinidae, Paradelocrinidae, Protencrinidae
Subtaxa: Eperisocrinus Erisocrinus Exaetocrinus Jaramahcrinus Neoprotencrinus Parallelocrinus Qararicrinus Sinocrinus
Type: Erisocrinus
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Melekhovian of United States (2: Nebraska collections)
• Permian of Azerbaijan (3), China (1), Oman (2), Slovenia (1), Tunisia (1), United States (4: Nevada, Texas)
• Carboniferous of China (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (28: Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas)
Total: 44 collections including 46 occurrences