Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Actinocrinitidae
Parent taxon: Actinocrinitidae according to G. D. Webster and N. G. Lane 1987
See also Lane et al. 2001 and Ubaghs et al. 1978
Sister taxa: Abactinocrinus, Cactocrininae, Eumorphocrininae, Manillacrinus, Physetocrininae, Thinocrinus
Subtaxa: Aacocrinus Abactinocrinites Actinocrinites Ancalocrinus Blairocrinus Diatorocrinus Sampsonocrinus Steganocrinus
Type: Actinocrinites
Ecology: stationary upper-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (2 collections), Indonesia (1)
• Carboniferous of Australia (3), China (1), Ireland (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (44: Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Tennessee)
• Devonian of China (1), the Czech Republic (1), Mongolia (1)
• Silurian of Ukraine (1)
Total: 60 collections including 78 occurrences