Crinoidea - Dendrocrinida - Dendrocrinidae
Parent taxon: Dendrocrinidae according to W. I. Ausich 1998
See also Ausich and Copper 2010, Kolata 1976, Sepkoski 2002, Ubaghs et al. 1978 and Wright et al. 2019
Sister taxa: Aetocrinus, Alsopocrinus, Atractocrinus, Bactrocrinites, Brechmocrinus, Compagicrinus, Elpasocrinus, Esthonocrinus, Grenprisia, Laurucrinus, Ottawacrinus, Parisangulocrinus, Rozhnovicrinus
Subtaxa: Dendrocrinus acutidactylus Dendrocrinus latibrachiatus Dendrocrinus leptos Dendrocrinus longidactylus Dendrocrinus minutus Dendrocrinus simcoensis Dendrocrinus tener
Type: Dendrocrinus longidactylus
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (1 collection), United States (1: New York)
• Silurian of Australia (6), Canada (8: Ontario, Quebec), the United Kingdom (2), United States (18: New York, Ohio, Tennessee)
• Ordovician of Canada (11: Ontario, Quebec), the United Kingdom (1), United States (38: Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Wyoming)
Total: 86 collections including 96 occurrences
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