Craniata - Craniida - Craniidae
Alternative spelling: Craniadae
Parent taxon: Cranioidea according to M. A. Bitner and A. Müller 2017
See also Craig 2000, Emig et al. 2013, Hoare 1961, Huxley 1869, Kiessling 2003, Mitchell 1977, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Temple 1987, Williams et al. 2000 and Wright 1963
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Acanthocrania Ancistrocrania Celidocrania Conocrania Crania Craniscus Danocrania Deliella Isocrania Lepidocrania Mesocrania Nematocrania Neoancistrocrania Novocrania Orthisocrania Petrocrania Philhedra Pseudocrania Valdiviathyris Venetocrania Westralicrania Xenocrania
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (2 collections), Italy (4), United States (1: Florida), Vanuatu (3)
• Pliocene of Italy (1), Portugal (4), Spain (2)
• Miocene of Bulgaria (3), Czechia (1), New Zealand (3), Poland (10), Romania (1), United States (1: Maryland)
• Oligocene of France (2), Germany (1), Iran (1)
• Eocene of Australia (3), Hungary (1), Italy (1), New Zealand (4), Ukraine (1), United States (6: North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Denmark (13)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (19), Czechia (9), Denmark (5), France (14), Germany (2), the Netherlands (2), Poland (2), Sweden (2), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (14), United States (2: Arizona, Tennessee)
• Jurassic of France (4), Germany (1), Portugal (1), Romania (1), Ukraine (1)
• Triassic of Austria (1), China (2), Hungary (2), Italy (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)
• Permian of Greenland (2), the Russian Federation (3), Thailand (7), the United Kingdom (1), United States (96: Alaska, Kansas, New Mexico, Texas), Venezuela (2)
• Carboniferous of Belgium (2), China (1), Ireland (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (65: Alabama, Alaska, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas)
• Givetian of United States (1: Missouri)
• Devonian of Australia (4), Austria (1), Canada (5: Alberta, New Brunswick, Ontario, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (1), Czechia (1), Germany (8), Luxembourg (2), Morocco (1), South Africa (1), United States (87: Alaska, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah)
• Silurian of Canada (1: Quebec), China (3), Sweden (2), the United Kingdom (16), United States (8: Indiana, Iowa, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Wisconsin)
• Uhaku of Estonia (1)
• Letna of Czechia (1)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Minnesota)
• Chazyan of United States (5: New York, Vermont)
• Arenig of China (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (1), Canada (7: Newfoundland, Ontario, Quebec), China (12), Czechia (6), Estonia (17), Iran (1), Ireland (6), Kazakhstan (1), Latvia (1), Lithuania (1), Myanmar (1), the Netherlands (1), Norway (5), Poland (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (33), Sweden (10), the United Kingdom (21), United States (136: Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, Wyoming)
Total: 759 collections including 946 occurrences