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Euspirocrinidae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4873215	https://www.gbif.org/species/4873215
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	161610	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=161610

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Crinoidea : Euspirocrinidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Crinoidea : Cyathocrinida : Euspirocrinidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ambulacraria
phylum	Echinodermata	Klein 1754
subphylum	Crinozoa	Matsumoto 1929
class	Crinoidea	Miller 1821
subclass	Pentacrinoidea	Jaekel 1918
infraclass	Inadunata
-	Cladida
-	Eucladida	Wright 2017
superorder	Cyathoformes	Wright et al. 2017
order	Cyathocrinida
superfamily	Cyathocrinitacea	Bassler 1938
family	Euspirocrinidae	Bather 1890

Scientific Name

Euspirocrinidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Euspirocrinidae	family	belongs to Cyathocrinitacea	stated with evidence	Ausich, 1998
Euspirocrinidae	family	belongs to Cyathocrinida	stated without evidence	Haude, 2004
Euspirocrinidae	family	belongs to Cyathocrinitacea	stated with evidence	Ausich and Copper, 2010
Euspirocrinidae	family	belongs to Cyathoformes	stated without evidence	Ausich et al., 2019

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

453 - 445 Ma
Late/Upper Ordovician

Last Recorded Appearance

279 - 272 Ma
Permian

Environment

marine (based on Echinodermata)

Motility

stationary, attached (based on Cladida)

Vision

blind (based on Crinoidea)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Cladida)

Reproduction

dispersal=water,planktonic (based on Echinodermata)

Ontogeny

accretion,addition of parts (based on Echinodermata)

Taphonomy

high Mg calcite (based on Crinoidea)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. Haude. 2004. Morphology and paleobiology of echinoderms in the Lower Devonian of the Argentine Precordillera. In Echinoderm: München, Heinzeller & Nebelsick (eds), Taylor & Francis Group, London

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ampheristocrinus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Anaglyptocrinus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Eoparisocrinus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	453 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	433 Ma Silurian
Euspirocrinus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	16	445 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	427 Ma Silurian
Illemocrinus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Manocrinus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	419 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	419 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Necopinocrinus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Vasocrinus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	419 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	419 Ma Early/Lower Devonian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1890	Euspirocrinidae Bather
1918	Parisocrinidae Jaekel p. 51
1998	Euspirocrinidae Ausich p. 21
2004	Euspirocrinidae Haude p. 419
2010	Euspirocrinidae Ausich and Copper p. 50
2019	Euspirocrinidae Ausich et al.
2019	Euspirocrinidae Wright et al.

References

Haude R. (2004) Morphology and paleobiology of echinoderms in the Lower Devonian of the Argentine Precordillera, In Echinoderm: München, Heinzeller & Nebelsick (eds), Taylor & Francis Group, London, 417-419

Ausich W. I. (1998) Phylogeny of Arenig to Caradoc crinoids (Phylum Echinodermata) and suprageneric classification of the Crinoidea, The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, n. s. 9, 1-36

Ausich W. I., Copper P. (2010) The Crinoidea of Anticosti Island, Quebec (Late Ordovician to Early Silurian), Palaeontographica Canadiana 29, 1-157

Ausich W. I., Wilson M. A., et al (2019) Early Silurian recovery of Baltica crinoids following the end-Ordovician extinctions (Llandovery, Estonia), Journal of Paleontology doi:doi: 10.1017/jpa.2019.89

All genera fossil, refer Sepkoski, 2002. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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