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Isocrania phosphatica

Craniata - Craniida - Craniidae

Taxonomy
Isocrania phosphatica was named by Simon (1998). Its type specimen is IRScNB-IST 10681, a valve (ventral valve), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sample 18, Van Damme quarry, Ciply, which is in a Maastrichtian carbonate chalk in the Ciply-Malogne Phosphatic Chalk Formation of Belgium.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
I. egnabergensis, I. paucicostata
Entered
by M. Clapham on 2015-06-12

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1998Isocrania phosphatica Simon p. 193 figs. Pl 1, figs 5-7; text-figs 5, 7, 9

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
—Lophophorata
—PanbrachiopodaCarlson and Cohen 2020
RankNameAuthor
phylumBrachiopodaCuvier 1805
subphylumCraniiformeaPopov et al. 1993
classCraniata
orderCraniidaWaagen 1885
superfamilyCranioidea(Menke 1828)
familyCraniidaeMenke 1828
genusIsocraniaJaekel 1902
speciesphosphatica

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Isocrania phosphatica Simon 1998
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available