Alternative spelling: Notocrinacea
Parent taxon: Comatulidina according to H. Hess and C. G. Messing 2011
See also Eagle 2009 and Meyer and Oji 1993
Sister taxa: Antedonoidea, Atelecrinoidea, Atopocrinidae, Comatulidia, Jaekelometridae, Mariametroidea, Microcrinus, Paracomatulacea, Paracomatuloidea, Procomaster, Solanocrinitoidea, Tropiometroidea, Uintacrinoidea
Subtaxa: Aporometridae Notocrinidae
Type: Notocrinus
Ecology: facultatively mobile intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Waitakian of New Zealand (4 collections)
• Eocene of Antarctica (2)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (2)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (5), Czechia (3), France (4), the Netherlands (3), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: Texas)
• Jurassic of Germany (1)
Total: 29 collections including 42 occurrences