Crinoidea - Dendrocrinida - Rutkowskicrinidae
Synonym: Poteriocrinus Worthen 1875
Parent taxon: Rutkowskicrinidae according to G. E. O. McIntosh 2001
See also Sepkoski 2002, Ubaghs et al. 1978 and Waagen and Pichl 1885
Sister taxa: Decorocrinus, Iteacrinus, Quantoxocrinus, Rutkowskicrinus, Sacrinus, Schmidtocrinus
Subtaxa: Poteriocrinus dignatus Propoteriocrinus scopae
Type: Propoteriocrinus scopae
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (1 collection), Azerbaijan (2), China (1), India (1), Indonesia (2), Laos (1), Pakistan (5)
• Carboniferous of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2), United States (4: Illinois, Oklahoma)
• Devonian of Germany (1), Tajikistan (1), United States (2: Missouri, New York)
Total: 23 collections each including a single occurrence
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