Crinoidea - Isocrinida - Isocrinidae
Parent taxon: Isocrinidae according to H. Hess and A. S. Gale 2010
See also Hess 2012, Hess and Messing 2011 and Jäger 1985
Sister taxa: Archaeoisocrinus, Chariocrinus, Isocrininae, Isocrinus parvus, Neocrinus, Pentacrinus exilis, Pentacrinus fairbanksi, Pentacrinus stellatus, Pentacrinus tehamaensis, Tauriniocrinus
Subtaxa: Balanocrinus Laevigatocrinus Percevalicrinus Singularocrinus
Type: Balanocrinus
Ecology: stationary upper-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Cuba (1 collection)
• Cretaceous of France (1), Hungary (2), Poland (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Jurassic of Austria (1), France (19), Germany (17), Poland (7), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (3), Switzerland (7), Ukraine (1), the United Arab Emirates (1), the United Kingdom (13)
• Triassic of Canada (1: British Columbia), China (18), Iran (2), Italy (1), New Zealand (3), Slovenia (3)
Total: 105 collections including 119 occurrences