Crinoidea - Isocrinida - Isocrinidae
Parent taxon: Isocrininae according to H. Hess and A. S. Gale 2010
See also Donovan et al. 2005, Oji 1990 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Bakonycrinus, Chladocrinus, Tyrolecrinus
Subtaxa: Isocrinus californicus Isocrinus granosus Isocrinus knighti Isocrinus legeri Isocrinus pendulus Isocrinus propinquus Isocrinus wyomingensis
Type: Isocrinites pendulus
Ecology: stationary upper-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Jamaica (1 collection)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), United States (1: Washington)
• Eocene of New Zealand (2), United States (2: Oregon)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (1)
• Cretaceous of the Czech Republic (7), France (10), Germany (1), Japan (12), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (28), United States (4: California)
• Jurassic of China (1), France (8), Germany (1), Greenland (1), New Zealand (2), Portugal (1), Switzerland (7), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (20), United States (4: Utah, Wyoming)
• Triassic of Canada (5: British Columbia), China (2), Colombia (1), East Timor (1), France (1), Hungary (2), Iran (3), Italy (10), Peru (5), United States (13: Alaska, California, Nevada, Utah)
Total: 160 collections including 192 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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