†family Rhodocrinitidae Roemer 1855 (Sea lily)

Crinoidea - Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae

Synonyms: Archaeocrinidae Moore and Laudon 1943, Spyridiocrinidae Jaekel 1918

Parent taxon: Rhodocrinitoidea according to J. Bohatý et al. 2024

See also Ausich 1998 and Ubaghs et al. 1978

Sister taxa: Anthracocrinidae, Callistocrinidae, Cleiocrinidae, Emperocrinidae, Siderocrinus, Opsiocrinidae, Anthemocrinidae, Paulocrinus

Subtaxa: Balacrinus

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Ecology: stationary upper-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of Australia (1 collection), Canada (1: Alberta), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (9), United States (68: Alabama, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, New Mexico, Tennessee)

• Devonian of Argentina (1), Australia (4), Bolivia (2), the Czech Republic (2), France (8), Germany (12), Italy (3), Luxembourg (1), South Africa (6), Spain (1), Tajikistan (2), United States (17: Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio)

• Silurian to Devonian of Tajikistan (1)

• Silurian of Canada (4: Quebec), the United Kingdom (3), United States (33: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia, Wisconsin)

• Whiterockian of Canada (1: Newfoundland)

• Ordovician of Canada (7: Ontario, Quebec), Spain (4), the United Kingdom (2), United States (57: California, Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, illinois)

Total: 251 collections including 318 occurrences

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