Parent taxon: Glyptocrinina according to Y. Y. Mao et al. 2018
See also Ausich 1998, Ubaghs et al. 1978, Webster and Jell 1992, Webster and Lane 1987, Webster et al. 2009 and Webster and Webster 2012
Sister taxa: Eucalyptocrinitacea, Glyptocrinacea, Glyptocrinoidea, Melocrinitacea, Patelliocrinoidea, Platycrinitoidea, Stipatocrinacea
Subtaxa: Hapalocrinidae Hirneacrinidae Platycrinitidae
Type: Platycrinitidae
Ecology: stationary upper-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (23 collections), Canada (2: British Columbia, Nunavut), China (1), East Timor (1), Indonesia (15), Oman (1), Slovenia (1), United States (2: Alaska, Nevada)
• Carboniferous of Antarctica (2), Australia (3), Canada (2: Alberta), China (3), Iran (2), Ireland (2), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (190: Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia)
• Devonian of Australia (1), China (5), the Czech Republic (2), Germany (7), Mongolia (1), United States (8: Missouri, New York)
• Silurian of Australia (4), the United Kingdom (4), United States (23: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia)
• Ordovician of United States (1: Illinois)
Total: 314 collections including 503 occurrences