†family Granatocrinidae Fay 1961 (blastoid)

Blastoidea - Granatocrinida - Granatocrinidae

Parent taxon: Granatocrinida according to N. G. Lane et al. 2001

See also Beaver et al. 1967

Sister taxon: Schizoblastidae

Subtaxa: Carpenteroblastus Cribroblastus Cryptoblastus Decemoblastus Dentiblastus Granatocrinus Heteroblastus Mesoblastus Monadoblastus Poroblastus Ptychoblastus

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Type: Granatocrinus

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Chesterian of United States (1: Tennessee collection)

• Osagean of United States (16: Alabama, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, New Mexico)

• Carboniferous of Belgium (1), Canada (1: Alberta), the United Kingdom (1), United States (8: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri)

• Devonian of China (1), United States (1: Missouri)

Total: 30 collections including 32 occurrences

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