Crinoidea - Pisocrinida - Pisocrinidae
Parent taxon: Pisocrinidae according to W. H. C. Ramsbottom 1958
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Webster and Rakhmonov 2009
Sister taxa: Calycanthocrinus, Cicerocrinus, Jaekelicrinus, Metaffinocrinus, Pisocrininae, Platyfundocrinus, Playfordicrinus, Polygonocrinus, Psilocrinus, Retusocrinus, Schedexocrinus, Separocrinus, Simocrinus, Triacrinus, Zeusocrinus
Subtaxa: Pisocrinus campana Pisocrinus pilula Pisocrinus sphericus
Type: Pisocrinus pilula
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of the Czech Republic (6 collections), Morocco (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (4), Ukraine (1), Uzbekistan (1)
• Silurian of Australia (5), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (2), the Czech Republic (2), Poland (1), Sweden (4), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (27: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Wisconsin)
Total: 60 collections including 68 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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