Blastoidea - Granatocrinida - Granatocrinidae
Type species- pentremites siris White 1865
Full reference: D. B. Macurda, Jr. 1964. Dentiblastus: A new blastoid genus from the Burlington Limestone (Mississippian). Journal of Paleontology 38(2):367-372
Parent taxon: Granatocrinidae according to J.A. Waters and A.S. Horowitz 1993
See also Beaver et al. 1967 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Arcuoblastus, Carpenteroblastus, Cribroblastus, Cryptoblastus, Decemoblastus, Deliablastus, Euryoblastus, Gongyloblastus, Granatocrinus, Heteroblastus, Mesoblastus, Monadoblastus, Perittoblastus, Poroblastus, Ptychoblastus, Pyramiblastus, Tanaoblastus, Xyeleblastus
Subtaxa: Dentiblastus macurdai Dentiblastus sirius
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of United States (3: Kentucky collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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