Parent taxon: Disparida according to G. D. Webster and N. G. Lane 1987
See also Arendt 1981 and Ubaghs et al. 1978
Sister taxa: Allagecrinacea, Allagecrinoidea, Alphacrinidae, Anomalocrinacea, Athenacrinidae, Aureocrinus, Belemnocrinoidea, Brutopisocrinus, Calceocrinida, Changninocrinus, Cincinnaticrinacea, Claviculacrinus, Dulkumocrinidae, Eustenocrinida, Gongrocrinus, Heterocrinacea, Heterocrinidae, Heterocrinoidea, Homocrinacea, Homocrinida, Macnamaratylus, Maennilicrinida, Metabolocrinus, Myelodactylacea, Myelodactylida, Paradoxocrinidae, Pentameri, Perittocrinacea, Perritocrinus, Pisocrinacea, Pisocrinida, Pisocrinoidea, Regnellicrinus, Resetocrinus, Taucatillocrinus, Tetragonocrinida, Tornatilicrinidae, Trichocrinus, Xisoallogecrinus
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Calceocrinacea in the database