Porocrinus Billings 1857 (Sea lily)

Crinoidea - Porocrinida

Parent taxon: Porocrinidae according to W. I. Ausich 1998

See also Sepkoski 2002, Ubaghs et al. 1978 and Wright et al. 2019

Sister taxa: Carabocrinus, Illemocrinus, Palaeocrinus, Triboloporus

Subtaxa: Porocrinus conicus

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Type: Porocrinus conicus

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Ordovician of Canada (5: Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec collections), the United Kingdom (1), United States (35: Illinois, Iowa, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, illinois)

Total: 41 collections including 53 occurrences

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