original description
(of Porphyrocrinidae) Clark, A. M. (1973). Some new taxa of recent stalked Crinoidea. <em>Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History).</em> 25(7):267-288, 6 fig., pl. 1-2. [details]
status source
Mironov, A. N. (2000). New taxa of the stalked crinoids of the suborder Bourgueticrinina. <em>Zoologicheskii Zhurnal.</em> 79(6): 712–728 (In Russian, English abstract). [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Phrynocrinidae with cup slightly conical, radials slightly higher than basals. Arms undivided; adjacent first brachials apposed in small specimens; every second to third brachial articulation nonmuscular. Column long and stout, diameter equal to cup. Several proximal columnals thin discoidal, circular in section with synostosial or symplectial articulations. More distal columnals subcircular to elliptical in section, joined by synarthry. Facets of a few distal columnals may bear marginal crenulae. [details]