†family Merocrinidae Miller 1890 (Sea lily)

Crinoidea - Inadunata - Merocrinidae

Parent taxon: Inadunata according to D. F. Wright et al. 2019

See also Ausich 1998, Brower et al. 2024 and Ubaghs et al. 1978

Sister taxa: Cladida, Dicirrocrinus, Disparata, Disparida, Fistulata, Larviformia, Metabolocrinidae, Paractocrinidae, Passalocrinus, Pentamerocrinidae, Poteriocrinidae, Thuringocrinus

Subtaxa: Merocrinus Polycrinus Praecupulocrinus

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Type: Merocrinus

Ecology: stationary upper-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Dobrotivian of Spain (1 collection)

• Ordovician of Canada (5: Ontario, Quebec), United States (175: Illinois, Iowa, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania)

Total: 181 collections including 184 occurrences

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