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 H. H. Beaver et al. 1967
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Carpenteroblastus, Cribroblastus, Cryptoblastus, Decemoblastus, Granatocrinus, Heteroblastus, Mesoblastus, Monadoblastus, Poroblastus, Ptychoblastus
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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