Crinoidea - Ampelocrinida - Ampelocrinidae
Parent taxon: Ampelocrinida according to G. D. Webster and P. A. Jell 1999
See also Pabian and Strimple 1974, Ubaghs et al. 1978, Webster and Donovan 2015 and Webster and Jell 1992
Sister taxa: Calceolispongiidae, Corythocrinidae, Tasmanocrinus, Tribrachyocrinidae
Subtaxa: Ampelocrininae Ampelocrinus Armenocrinus Chlidonocrinus Cymbiocrinus Exallocrinus Globocrinus Oklahomacrinus Proampelocrinus Spheniscocrinus
Type: Ampelocrinus
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (1 collection), Oman (1), Thailand (1), United States (1: Nevada)
• Carboniferous to Permian of United States (1: Utah)
• Carboniferous of Canada (2: Nunavut), the United Kingdom (1), United States (54: Alabama, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Virginia)
Total: 62 collections including 77 occurrences