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Hardouinia florealis

Echinoidea - Cassiduloida

Taxonomy
Clypeaster florealis was named by Morton (1833). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (Marshalltown, ANSP), which is in a Campanian marine sandstone in the Marshalltown Formation of Delaware.

It was recombined as Cassidulus florealis by Clark and Twitchell (1915); it was recombined as Hardouinia florealis by Cooke (1953).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1833Clypeaster florealis Morton
1915Cassidulus florealis Clark and Twitchell p. 74
1953Hardouinia florealis Cooke p. 23 figs. Pl 8, figs 11-14

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
—Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
—Echinozoa()
classEchinoidea()
RankNameAuthor
subclassEuechinoideaBronn 1860
superorderAcroechinoidea()
—Carinacea
—Irregularia()
—Microstomata
—Neognathostomata
orderCassiduloida
genusHardouinia()
speciesflorealis(Morton 1833)

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.

†Hardouinia florealis Morton 1833
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available