Crinoidea - Dendrocrinida - Scytalocrinidae
Parent taxon: Scytalocrinacea according to G. D. Webster et al. 1999
See also Campbell and Bein 1971 and Ubaghs et al. 1978
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Anemetocrinus Atrapocrinus Bollandocrinus Corematocrinus Haeretocrinus Histocrinus Hydriocrinus Hypselocrinus Julieticrinus Linobrachiocrinus Lorocrinus Morrowcrinus Omanicrinus Ophiurocrinus Pegocrinus Phacelocrinus Prininocrinus Roemerocrinus Scytalocrinus
Type: Scytalocrinus
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Indonesia (1 collection), Oman (2), Pakistan (2)
• Carboniferous to Permian of United States (2: Utah)
• Carboniferous of Australia (1), Iran (1), Ireland (1), the United Kingdom (10), United States (79: Alabama, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Devonian of China (2), Mongolia (1), United States (1: Colorado)
Total: 103 collections including 135 occurrences