Subfamily Diplocrininae Roux, 1981

Stalk symplexies of diplocrinine type, proximal cirri oriented upwards, occasionally alternicirration; usually cryptosynarthry at Br1 + 2, secundibrachitaxes usually with <5 brachials often two. Included genera: Nielsenicrinus, Doreckicrinus, Teliocrinus, and Endoxocrinus . Early Cretaceous?–Recent.