Crinoidea - Dendrocrinida - Erisocrinidae
Parent taxon: Erisocrinacea according to G. D. Webster 2006
See also Burke 1977, Mao et al. 2018 and Ubaghs et al. 1978
Sister taxa: Arkacrinidae, Catacrinidae, Cricocrinus, Paradelocrinidae, Protencrinidae
Subtaxa: Eperisocrinus Erisocrinus Exaetocrinus Neoprotencrinus Parallelocrinus Sinocrinus
Type: Erisocrinus
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Azerbaijan (2 collections), China (1), Slovenia (1), Tunisia (1), United States (4: Nevada, Texas)
• Melekhovian of United States (2: Nebraska)
• Carboniferous of China (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (28: Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas)
Total: 41 collections including 43 occurrences