Crinoidea - Dendrocrinida - Scytalocrinidae
Full reference: E. Kirk. 1940. Seven new genera of Carboniferous Crinoidea Inadunata. Journal of the Washington Academy of Science 30:321-334
Parent taxon: Scytalocrinidae according to K.S.W. Campbell and J. Bein 1971
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Anemetocrinus, Atrapocrinus, Bollandocrinus, Corematocrinus, Haeretocrinus, Hydriocrinus, Hypselocrinus, Julieticrinus, Linobrachiocrinus, Lorocrinus, Morrowcrinus, Omanicrinus, Ophiurocrinus, Pegocrinus, Phacelocrinus, Prininocrinus, Roemerocrinus, Scytalocrinus
Subtaxa: Histocrinus grandis Histocrinus graphicus Histocrinus juvenis
Type: Poteriocrinus grandis
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Australia (1 collection), United States (12: Indiana, Kentucky)
Total: 13 collections including 15 occurrences
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