Full reference: W. I. Ausich. 1998. Phylogeny of Arenig to Caradoc crinoids (Phylum Echinodermata) and suprageneric classification of the Crinoidea. The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, n. s. 9:1-36
Parent taxon: Disparida according to D. F. Wright et al. 2017
See also Ausich 1998, Ausich and Copper 2010, Ausich and Roeser 2012 and Ausich et al. 2018
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Calceocrinidae
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of the Russian Federation (2 collections)
• Carboniferous of Iran (2), United States (49: Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee)
• Devonian of Australia (1), China (1), Czechia (8), Germany (1), United States (10: Indiana, Iowa, New York, Ohio, Tennessee)
• Silurian of Canada (8: Ontario, Quebec, Québec), Sweden (4), the United Kingdom (1), United States (35: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (1: Québec), United States (1: Illinois)
• Ordovician of Canada (12: Ontario, Quebec), the United Kingdom (1), United States (39: Illinois, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, illinois)
Total: 176 collections including 250 occurrences