{{Short description|Family of crinoids}} {{Missing information||diagnostic traits (the reason that we have the subfamilies), range of both fossil and extant species, biology|date=June 2025}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Neocrinus decorus (YPM IZ 070048).jpg | image_caption = ''Neocrinus decorus''; YPM | taxon = Balanocrinidae | authority = Roux, 1981<ref name=WoRMS>{{Cite WoRMS|author=Marc Eleaume|title=Balanocrinidae Roux, 1981|id=1735214}}</ref> }}
'''Balanocrinidae''' is one of four extant families of crinoids in the order Isocrinida, though most of its members are only known from the fossil record.<ref name=WoRMS/>
==Subfamilies and genera== {{Expand section|diagnostic characters of the family and both subfamilies<ref name=Pang/>|date=June 2025}} Family '''Balanocrinidae''' <small>Roux, 1981</small><ref name=WoRMS/> * Subfamily '''Balanocrininae''' <small>Roux, 1981</small> ** Genus {{Extinct}}''Balanocrinus'' <small>Agassiz in Desor, 1845</small> ** Genus {{Extinct}}''Cainocrinus'' <small>Forbes, 1852</small> ** Genus {{Extinct}}''Laevigatocrinus'' <small>Klikushin, 1979</small> ** Genus ''Neocrinus'' <small>Thomson, 1864</small> ** Genus {{Extinct}}''Papacrinus'' <small>Roux & Philippe, 2021</small> ** Genus {{Extinct}}''Singularocrinus'' <small>Klikushin, 1982</small> * Subfamily '''Diplocrininae''' <small>Roux, 1981</small> ** Genus {{Extinct}}''Doreckicrinus'' <small>Rasmussen, 1961</small> ** Genus ''Endoxocrinus'' <small>AH Clark, 1908</small> *** Subgenus Endoxocrinus (Diplocrinus) <small>Döderlein, 1912</small> ** Genus {{Extinct}}''Nielsenicrinus'' <small>Rasmussen, 1961</small> ** Genus ''Teliocrinus'' <small>Döderlein, 1912</small> * Subfamily '''Isselicrininae''' <small>Klikushin, 1977</small> ** Genus {{Extinct}}''Isselicrinus'' <small>Rovereto, 1914</small> ** Genus ''Panglaocrinus'' <small>Améziane, Eléaume & Roux, 2023</small><ref name=Pang>{{cite journal |title=Classification of Isocrinida (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) with the description of a new extant genus and species from the western Pacific |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |date=20 July 2023 |volume=200 |pages=994–1012 |doi=10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad101 |url=https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-pdf/200/4/994/56754560/zlad101.pdf |access-date=19 June 2025 |last1=Améziane |first1=Nadia |last2=Eléaume |first2=Marc |last3=Roux |first3=Michel |issue=4 }}</ref> ** Genus {{Extinct}}''Praeisselicrinus'' <small>Klikushin, 1977</small> * Subfamily '''Proisocrininae''' <small>Rasmussen, 1978</small> ** Genus {{Extinct}}''Austinocrinus'' <small>De Loriol, 1889</small> ** Genus ''Proisocrinus'' <small>AH Clark, 1910</small> * Subfamily ''incertae sedis'' ** Genus ''Cenocrinus'' <small>Thomson, 1864</small>
<gallery style="text-align:center;" widths=250 mode="nolines"> Image:Cenocrinus asterius (Linnaeus, 1767).jpg|<small>''Cenocrinus asterius''</small> Image:Endoxocrinus parrae.jpg|<small>''Endoxocrinus parrae''</small> Image:Endoxocrinus.jpg|''Endoxocrinus sp.'' Image:Endoxocrinus (Diplocrinus) wyvillethomsoni.jpg|<small>''Endoxocrinus wyvillethomsoni''</small> File:3D MRI of Isselicrinus buchii from Rügen (MB.E 5730).ogv|''Isselicrinus buchii'' fossil; 3D MRI File:Isselicrinus sp. 2 face.png|''Isselicrinus sp.''; fossil stalk fragment File:Proisocrinus ruberrimus.jpg|''Proisocrinus ruberrimus'' File:Neocrinus decorus.jpg|Aggregation of ''Neocrinus decorus'', Gulf of Mexico </gallery>
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Isselicrinidae Category:Isocrinida Category:Echinoderm families
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