Crinoidea - Isocrinida - Isocrinidae
Synonym: Isocrinites Meyer in Agassiz 1836
Parent taxon: Isocrininae according to H. Hess and C. G. Messing 2011
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915, Donovan et al. 2005, Hess 2012, Hess and Gale 2010, Jäger 2010, Jagt 1999, Moore and Vokes 1953, Oji 1990 and Rasmussen 1961
Sister taxa: Bakonycrinus, Chladocrinus, Hispidocrinus, Hypalocrinus, Raymondicrinus, Tyrolecrinus
Subtaxa: Isocrinus (Chladocrinus) Isocrinus (Diplocrinus) Isocrinus (Isocrinus) Isocrinus amblyscalaris Isocrinus annulatus Isocrinus arduennensis Isocrinus arzierensis Isocrinus bleytonensis Isocrinus brotzeni Isocrinus californicus Isocrinus campanularis Isocrinus cenomanensis Isocrinus dentatogranulatus Isocrinus diegonensis Isocrinus divergens Isocrinus doliolum Isocrinus dumortieri Isocrinus echinatus Isocrinus florifer Isocrinus gevreyi Isocrinus gocevi Isocrinus granosus Isocrinus knighti Isocrinus lanceolatus Isocrinus legeri Isocrinus lissajouxi Isocrinus longus Isocrinus mallevalensis Isocrinus minutus Isocrinus nehalemensis Isocrinus neocomiensis Isocrinus nicoleti Isocrinus nodulosus Isocrinus perlatus Isocrinus peyroulensis Isocrinus propinquus Isocrinus psilonoti Isocrinus sublaevigatus Isocrinus thiessingi Isocrinus wyomingensis Isocrinus zeltbergensis
Ecology: stationary upper-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Jamaica (1 collection)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), United States (6: Oregon, Washington)
• Eocene of New Zealand (2), United States (4: Oregon)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (1)
• Cretaceous of the Czech Republic (7), France (13), Germany (1), Japan (12), Poland (1), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (28), United States (4: California)
• Jurassic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (1), France (14), Germany (11), Greenland (1), India (2), New Zealand (2), Peru (1), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Switzerland (7), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (28), United States (4: Utah, Wyoming)
• Triassic of Austria (2), Canada (5: British Columbia), China (2), Colombia (1), East Timor (1), France (1), Germany (2), Hungary (2), Indonesia (2), Iran (3), Italy (15), Peru (5), United States (16: Alaska, California, Nevada, Utah)
Total: 215 collections including 251 occurrences
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