†family Decadocrinidae Bather 1890 (Sea lily)

Crinoidea - Dendrocrinina - Decadocrinidae

Parent taxon: Decadocrinacea according to T. W. Kammer and E. W. Roeser 2012

See also Pabian and Rushlau 2002, Ubaghs et al. 1978 and Webster et al. 1999

Sister taxon: Clathrocrinidae

Subtaxa: Acylocrinus Aulocrinus Decadocrinus Eidosocrinus Eireocrinus Glaukosocrinus Grabauicrinus Holcocrinus Ramulocrinus Trautscholdicrinus Zostocrinus

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Type: Decadocrinus

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Melekhovian of United States (1: Nebraska collection)

• Permian of Australia (3)

• Carboniferous of Canada (1: Alberta), United States (76: Alabama, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma)

• Devonian of China (3), Mongolia (1), United States (17: Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, New York, Ohio)

Total: 102 collections including 116 occurrences

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