Isocrinida

Order of crinoids From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Isocrinida is an order of sea lilies which contains four families.

Class:Crinoidea
Subclass:Articulata
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Isocrinida
Temporal range: Anisian to Recent
Isocrinus nicoleti columnals; Middle Jurassic; Carmel Formation; Utah.
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Crinoidea
Subclass: Articulata
Order: Isocrinida
Synonyms[1]

Isocrinina Sieverts-Doreck, 1952

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Characteristics

Members of this order are characterised by having a "heteromorphic" stalk; the stalk consists of a series of nodes with cirri, interspersed by several nodes without cirri. There are additionally a whorl of cirri at the base on which the animal perches. The calyx is a shallow cup consisting of five basals and five radials.[2]

They are more mobile than other stalked crinoids, and can be found as shallow as 100–170 m (300–600 ft), and on rare occasions below 400 m (1,300 ft), but is most common at depths of 200–300 m (700–1,000 ft).[3]

Families

Ordo Isocrinida[1]

  • Family Balanocrinidae Roux, 1981
    • Subfamily Balanocrininae Roux, 1981
    • Subfamily Diplocrininae Roux, 1981
    • Subfamily Isselicrininae Klikushkin, 1977
    • Subfamily Proisocrininae Rasmussen, 1978
  • Family Cainocrinidae Simms, 1988
  • Family Isocrinidae Gislén, 1924
    • Subfamily Isocrininae Gislén, 1924
    • Subfamily Metacrininae Klikushin, 1977
  • Family Pentacrinitidae Gray, 1842
    • Subfamily Eocomatulinae Simms, 1988
    • Subfamily Pentacrinitinae Blumenbach, 1804

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