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 taxon: Plicodendrocrinidae
Subtaxa: Ancyrocrinus Barycrinus Botryocrinus Cosmocrinus Costalocrinus Fragucrinus Gastrocrinus Gothocrinus Imitatocrinus Jahnocrinus Mastigocrinus Myosocrinus Parabotryocrinus Rhadinocrinus Sigambrocrinus Situlacrinus
Type: Botryocrinus
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Iran (1 collection), United States (75: Indiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Tennessee)
• Couvinien of Germany (1), United States (1: Kentucky)
• Devonian of Antarctica (2), Australia (1), Canada (4: Ontario), the Czech Republic (1), France (5), Germany (3), Poland (5), Spain (1), United States (41: Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, New York, Ohio)
• Silurian of Canada (3: Quebec), the Czech Republic (1), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (13: Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee)
Total: 160 collections including 235 occurrences