Extension method on enumeration, not instance of enumeration

I have an enumeration for my Things like so:

public enum Things
{
   OneThing,
   AnotherThing
}

I would like to write an extension method for this enumeration (similar to Prise's answer here) but while that method works on an instance of the enumeration, ala

Things thing; var list = thing.ToSelectList();

I would like it to work on the actual enumeration instead:

var list = Things.ToSelectList();

I could just do

var list = default(Things).ToSelectList();

But I don't like the look of that :)

I have gotten closer with the following extension method:

public static SelectList ToSelectList(this Type type)
{
   if (type.IsEnum)
   {
      var values = from Enum e in Enum.GetValues(type)
                   select new { ID = e, Name = e.ToString() };
      return new SelectList(values, "Id", "Name");
   }
   else
   {
      return null;
   }
}

Used like so:

var list = typeof(Things).ToSelectList();

Can we do any better than that?