Carabocrinus Billings 1857 (Sea lily)

Crinoidea - Porocrinida

Parent taxon: Porocrinidae according to D. F. Wright et al. 2019

See also Ausich 1998, Ausich and Copper 2010, Parsley 1981, Sepkoski 2002 and Ubaghs et al. 1978

Sister taxa: Illemocrinus, Palaeocrinus, Porocrinus, Triboloporus

Subtaxa: Carabocrinus boltoni Carabocrinus radiatus Carabocrinus tuberculatus

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Type: Carabocrinus radiatus

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Ordovician of Canada (10: Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec collections), United States (57: Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia)

Total: 67 collections including 93 occurrences

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