The ‘När block’ (approximately 1 × 1 m) from the Silurian (Ludlovian) Eke Beds of Gotland, Sweden, displays a crinoid thanatotope of 260 specimens belonging to four species,Haereticotaxocrinus aspern. gen., n. sp.,Desmidocrinus pentadactylusAngelin,Carpocrinus petilusn. sp., andC. angelinin. sp. They occur in marked preferred orientation at the upper surface of a lens consisting ofCoenitesfragments and bioclastic debris, and were buried in situ by a sudden influx of the same type of sediment. The fossilizable community comprized crinoids only: those other organisms occurring in the rock, including the ubiquitousCoenites, were washed in with the sediment burying the crinoids and were no part of the community itself. Crinoid stem lengths indicate a multi-level community pattern, withHaereticotaxocrinusforming the upper crinoid level. TheCarpocrinusandHaereticotaxocrinuspopulations include juvenile specimens, whileDesmidocrinuscomprises adults only.