†family Ampelocrinidae Kirk 1942 (Sea lily)

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 Armenocrinus Chlidonocrinus Exallocrinus Globocrinus Oklahomacrinus Proampelocrinus Spheniscocrinus

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Type: Ampelocrinus

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Australia (1 collection), Oman (1), United States (1: Nevada)

• Carboniferous to Permian of United States (1: Utah)

• Carboniferous of Canada (2: Nunavut), United States (36: Alabama, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Virginia)

Total: 42 collections including 43 occurrences

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