Crinoidea - Cladida - Botryocrinidae
Parent taxon: Articuliformes according to W. I. Ausich and M. E. Cournoyer 2019
See also Ausich and Copper 2010, Laudon 1936, Ramsbottom 1958 and Ubaghs et al. 1978
Sister taxa: Aesiocrinus, Agassizocrinus, Amabilicrinus, Ampelocrinus, Anobasicrinus, Aphelecrinus, Arkacrinus, Basleocrinus, Blothrocrinus, Bursacrinus, Cadocrinus, Calceolispongia, Cercidocrinus, Clathrocrinus, Corematocrinus, Corythocrinus, Cricocrinus, Cromyocrinus, Cupressocrinites, Cymbiocrinus, Delocrinus, Diphuicrinus, Eupachycrinus, Exocrinus, Galateacrinus, Glossocrinus, Graphiocrinus, Hydreionocrinus, Laudonocrinus, Lophocrinus, Paradelocrinus, Pelecocrinus, Phanocrinus, Pirasocrinus, Plicodendrocrinidae, Rhenocrinus, Rutkowskicrinus, Scotiacrinus, Scytalocrinus, Sellardsicrinus, Sostronocrinus, Spaniocrinus, Stachyocrinus, Staphylocrinus, Stellarocrinus, Sundacrinus, Texacrinus, Timorechinus, Tribrachyocrinus, Trimerocrinus, Zeacrinites
Subtaxa: Cosmocrinus Costalocrinus Fragucrinus Gastrocrinus Gothocrinus Imitatocrinus Jahnocrinus Myosocrinus Parabotryocrinus Rhadinocrinus Sigambrocrinus Situlacrinus
Type: Botryocrinus
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Iran (1 collection), United States (7: Kentucky, Tennessee)
• Couvinien of Germany (1), United States (1: Kentucky)
• Devonian of Canada (3: Ontario), Czechia (1), France (1), Germany (4), Poland (5), Spain (1), United States (25: Indiana, Kentucky, New York)
• Silurian of Canada (3: Quebec), United States (1: New York)
Total: 54 collections including 64 occurrences