Crinoidea - Taxocrinida - Taxocrinidae
Laudon, 1936 (pb ref21501) and Goldring, 1936 (pb ref20958) list Family TAXOCRINIDAE Bather (em. Springer)
Parent taxon: Taxocrinacea according to W. I. Ausich 1998
See also Ausich and Copper 2010, Laudon 1936, Ubaghs et al. 1978 and Webster et al. 1999
Sister taxon: Synerocrinidae
Subtaxa: Eutaxocrinus Gnorimocrinus Ladacrinus Parichthyocrinus Protaxocrinus Taxocrinus
Type: Taxocrinus
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Canada (1: Alberta collection), Iran (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (31: Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Tennessee)
• Devonian of Australia (1), China (4), the Czech Republic (2), France (1), Germany (3), Mongolia (1), United States (13: Colorado, Iowa, New York, Ohio)
• Silurian of Canada (11: Ontario, Quebec), the Czech Republic (2), the United Kingdom (3), United States (6: New York, Oklahoma, West Virginia)
• Ordovician of Canada (4: Ontario, Quebec), the United Kingdom (2), United States (2: Illinois, Iowa, Iowa)
Total: 90 collections including 103 occurrences