Parent taxon: Articulata according to D. F. Wright et al. 2017
See also Hess and Messing 2011 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Bihaticrinus, Comatulida, Corythocrinus, Cratecrinus, Cyclocrinidae, Cyrtocrinida, Holocrinida, Hyocrinida, Isocrinida, Lanternocrinidae, Leocrinidae, Millericrinida, Qingyanocrinidae, Roveacrinida, Taurocrinus, Tulipacrinidae, Uintacrinida
Subtaxa: Ainigmacrinidae Dadocrinidae Encrinidae Flabellocrinites Traumatocrinidae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Austria (3 collections), Bosnia and Herzegovina (6), China (27), France (1), Germany (15), Greece (1), Hungary (6), India (2), Indonesia (1), Iran (1), Italy (27), Nepal (1), New Zealand (4), Norway (1), Oman (1), Poland (7), Slovenia (1), Spain (3), Switzerland (1), Turkey (1), United States (3: Nevada)
• Devonian of the Czech Republic (1)
Total: 114 collections including 158 occurrences