Crinoidea - Diplobathrida

PaleoDB taxon number: 203957

Synonyms: Archaeocrinidae Moore and Laudon 1943 (no. 372313), Spyridiocrinidae Jaekel 1918 (no. 372314)

Parent taxon: Rhodocrinitoidea according to S. R. Cole et al. 2018

Sister taxa: Anthracocrinidae, Cleiocrinidae, Anthemocrinidae, Opsiocrinidae

Subtaxa: Ambonacrinus, Apoarchaeocrinus, Archaeocrinus, Atactocrinus, Balacrinus, Bromidocrinus, Bucucrinus, Cefnocrinus, Chaosocrinus, Cribanocrinus, Crinerocrinus, Diabolocrinus, Lutocrinus, Maquoketocrinus, Neoarchaeocrinus, Ortsaecrinus, Paradiabolocrinus, Pararchaeocrinus, Proexenocrinus, Rhaphanocrinus, Simplococrinus, Spyridiocrinus, Thylacocrinus, Trichinocrinus, Ursucrinus, Visocrinus

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Ecology: stationary upper-level epifaunal suspension feeder