Crinoidea - Cyathocrinida - Crotalocrinitidae
Parent taxon: Gasterocomoidea according to S. V. Rozhnov 2018
See also Ausich 1998, Ausich and Copper 2010 and Ubaghs et al. 1978
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Achradocrinus Arachnocrinus Crotalocrinites Elgaecrinus Enallocrinus Parapernerocrinus Pernerocrinus Salinocrinus Syndetocrinus
Type: Crotalocrinites
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (3 collections), Austria (1), Czechia (2), Italy (3), Kazakhstan (1), Mongolia (2), the Russian Federation (5)
• Silurian of Canada (1: Quebec), Czechia (1), Estonia (1), Norway (2), the Russian Federation (6), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (16: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin)
Total: 46 collections including 54 occurrences