Crinoidea - Flexibilia - Cupulocrinidae
Parent taxon: Cupulocrinidae according to D. F. Wright et al. 2019
See also Ausich 1998, Ausich and Copper 2010, Kolata 1976, Parsley 1981, Sepkoski 2002 and Wright et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Morenacrinus, Quinquecaudex
Subtaxa: Cupulocrinus heterocostalis Cupulocrinus humilis Cupulocrinus latibrachiatus
Type: Scyphocrinus heterocostalis
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (1 collection)
• Silurian of United States (1: Indiana)
• Ordovician of Canada (11: Nunvait, Ontario, Quebec), the United Kingdom (1), United States (79: Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Wyoming)
Total: 93 collections including 126 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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