Crinoidea - Diplobathrida - Dimerocrinitidae
Parent taxon: Dimerocrinitacea according to W. I. Ausich 1998
See also Ausich and Copper 2010, Ausich and Cournoyer 2019, Ausich et al. 2019, Brower 1994, Ubaghs et al. 1978 and von Zittel 1879
Sister taxa: Aenigmaticumcrinidae, Gazacrinidae, Lampterocrinidae, Nyctocrinidae, Orthocrinidae, Tuberocrinidae
Subtaxa: Allozygocrinus Ambicocrinus Apurocrinus Becsciecrinus Cybelecrinus Dimerocrinites Duncanicrinus Eodimerocrinites Eucrinus Eudimerocrinus Euptychocrinus Gnarycrinus Griphocrinus Hiiumaacrinus Macarocrinus Nexocrinus Oepikicrinus Ptychocrinus Rosfacrinus Shidianocrinus
Type: Dimerocrinites
Ecology: stationary upper-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Argentina (1 collection), Australia (5), Bolivia (3), Czechia (1), Germany (1), United States (2: New York, Tennessee)
• Silurian of Australia (3), Canada (22: Ontario, Quebec, Québec), Estonia (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (53: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, New York, Tennessee, Wisconsin)
• Ordovician of Canada (1: Quebec), Morocco (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (16: Illinois, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, Ohio)
Total: 115 collections including 148 occurrences