Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Actinocrinitidae
Alternative spelling: Actinocrinus
Parent taxon: Actinocrinitinae according to G. D. Webster and N. G. Lane 1987
See also Lane et al. 2001, Sepkoski 2002, Ubaghs et al. 1978, Wanner 1924 and Webster 1987
Sister taxa: Aacocrinus, Abactinocrinites, Ancalocrinus, Blairocrinus, Diatorocrinus, Sampsonocrinus, Steganocrinus
Subtaxa: Actinocrinites anchorensis Actinocrinites batheri Actinocrinites brevispina Actinocrinites brouweri Actinocrinites dilatatus Actinocrinites permicus Actinocrinites tesseracontadactylus Actinocrinites timoricus Actinocrinites zhaoae Actinocrinus permicus Actinocrinus wachsmuthi
Ecology: stationary upper-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (2 collections), Indonesia (1)
• Carboniferous of Australia (3), China (1), Ireland (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (43: Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Tennessee)
• Devonian of China (1), the Czech Republic (1), Mongolia (1)
• Silurian of Ukraine (1)
Total: 56 collections including 73 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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