Ascetocrinus Kirk 1940 (Sea lily)

Crinoidea - Dendrocrinida - Cercidocrinidae

Full reference: E. Kirk. 1940. Seven new genera of Carboniferous Crinoidea Inadunata. Journal of the Washington Academy of Science 30:321-334

Parent taxon: Cercidocrinidae according to G. Ubaghs et al. 1978

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Cercidocrinus, Coeliocrinus

Subtaxa: Ascetocrinus rusticellus Ascetocrinus whitei

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Type: Scaphiocrinus rusticellus

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Ascetocrinus in the database

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