†family Agelacrinitidae Clarke 1901

Edrioasteroidea - Isorophida - Agelacrinitidae

Parent taxon: Isorophida according to C. D. Sumrall and F.J. Gahn 2006

See also Guensburg and Rozhnov 2014, Regnéll 1966 and Sumrall 1996

Sister taxa: Bizarroglobus, Chatsworthia, Cryptogoleus, Curvitriordo, Deltadiscus, Floridiscus, Giganticlavus, Hadrochthus, Hadrodiscus, Lebetodiscidae, Protorophus, Rectitriordo, Stalticodiscus

Subtaxa: Agelacrinites Agelacrinitinae Bellastrella Cooperidiscus Dinocystis Discocystinae Hystrichopsydrax Krama Lepidodiscus Neoisorophusella Persiadiskos Postibulla Postibullinae Savagella Thresherodiscus Ulrichidiscus

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Type: Agelacrinites

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of the Russian Federation (1 collection)

• Carboniferous of Canada (2: Alberta), United States (7: Alabama, Arizona, Illinois, Oklahoma)

• Devonian of Germany (2), United States (4: Iowa, New York, Ohio)

• Ordovician of Canada (2: Ontario), United States (6: Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota)

• Cambrian of Iran (1)

Total: 25 collections including 31 occurrences

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