Crinoidea - Diplobathrida - Dimerocrinitidae
Parent taxon: Dimerocrinitidae according to W. I. Ausich and M. E. Cournoyer 2019
See also Ausich 1998, Ausich and Copper 2010 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Allozygocrinus, Ambicocrinus, Apurocrinus, Becsciecrinus, Cybelecrinus, Duncanicrinus, Eodimerocrinites, Eucrinus, Eudimerocrinus, Euptychocrinus, Gnarycrinus, Griphocrinus, Hiiumaacrinus, Macarocrinus, Nexocrinus, Oepikicrinus, Ptychocrinus, Rosfacrinus, Shidianocrinus
Subtaxa: Dimerocrinites brachiatus Dimerocrinites decadactylus Dimerocrinites elegans
Type: Dimerocrinites decadactylus
Ecology: stationary upper-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (1 collection), Czechia (1), United States (2: New York, Tennessee)
• Silurian of Canada (11: Ontario, Québec), the United Kingdom (1), United States (50: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, New York, Tennessee, Wisconsin)
Total: 66 collections including 85 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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