Crinoidea - Dendrocrinida - Erisocrinidae
Parent taxon: Erisocrinidae according to Y. Y. Mao et al. 2018
See also Sepkoski 2002, Ubaghs et al. 1978 and Webster 2006
Sister taxa: Eperisocrinus, Exaetocrinus, Neoprotencrinus, Parallelocrinus, Sinocrinus
Subtaxa: Erisocrinus longwelli Erisocrinus propinquus Erisocrinus typus Erisocrinus wapanucka
Type: Erisocrinus typus
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Azerbaijan (2 collections), China (1), United States (4: Nevada, Texas)
• Melekhovian of United States (2: Nebraska)
• Carboniferous of United States (26: Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas)
Total: 35 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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