Isocrinida

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

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

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.[1]

Extant families

  • Suborder Isocrinina Sieverts-Doreck, 1952
    • family Cainocrinidae Simms, 1988 -- 1 genus (1 species)
    • family Isocrinidae Gislén, 1924 -- 3 genus (3 species)
    • family Isselicrinidae Klikushkin, 1977 -- 4 genus (18 species)
    • family Proisocrinidae Rasmussen, 1978 -- 1 genus (1 species)
  • Suborder Pentacrinitina Gray, 1842
    • family Pentacrinitidae Gray, 1842
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References

  1. O'Hara, Timothy; Byrne, Maria (2017). Australian Echinoderms: Biology, Ecology and Evolution. Csiro Publishing. p. 192. ISBN 978-1-4863-0763-0.
  • Hess H (2011) Isocrinida. In: Hess, H., Messing, C.G., Ausich, W.I. (Eds.), Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part T, Echinodermata 2 Revised, Crinoidea, vol. 3. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas, pp. 42–69.


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