Crinoidea - Isocrinida - Pentacrinitidae
Synonym: Pentacrinidae Gray 1842 [replaced name]
Parent taxon: Pentacrinitina according to H. Hess 2012
See also Anderson 1958, Clark and Twitchell 1915, Hess and Messing 2011, Jäger 1985 and Ubaghs et al. 1978
Sister taxon: Eocomatulidae
Subtaxa: Pachecocrinus Pentacrinites Seirocrinus
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of Germany (1 collection), Japan (2)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Egypt (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Poland (1)
• Cretaceous of Chile (1), France (1), Germany (2), New Zealand (3), Poland (2), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: California)
• Temaikan of New Zealand (1)
• Jurassic of Argentina (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Canada (11: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon), Chile (8), Egypt (1), France (6), Germany (15), Greenland (7), Hong Kong (1), India (3), Italy (7), Luxembourg (1), Mexico (1), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Slovenia (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Switzerland (3), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (19), United States (13: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming)
• Triassic of Austria (2), Germany (2), Indonesia (1), Italy (9), Japan (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (3), Spain (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (9: Alaska, California)
Total: 162 collections including 168 occurrences