Crinoidea - Dendrocrinida - Graphiocrinidae
Synonym: Scaphiocrinus Whidborne 1898
Full reference: L. G. de Koninck and H. Le Hon. 1854. Recherches sur les crinoides du terrain carbonifere de la Belgique. Academie Royal de Belgique, Memoir 28(3):1-215
Parent taxon: Graphiocrinidae according to G. D. Webster and S. K. Donovan 2015
See also Pabian and Strimple 1974, Sepkoski 2002 and Ubaghs et al. 1978
Sister taxa: Contocrinus, Ekmelocrinus, Euerisocrinus, Permiocrinus, Tapinocrinus
Subtaxa: Graphiocrinus encrinoides Graphiocrinus punctatus Graphiocrinus quinquelobus Graphiocrinus scopulus Scaphiocrinus salebrosus
Type: Graphiocrinus encrinoides
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Indonesia (1 collection), United States (4: Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada)
• Carboniferous of China (1), United States (2: Oklahoma, Texas)
• Devonian of China (1)
Total: 9 collections including 10 occurrences
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