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Plicodendrocrinus casei

Crinoidea - Dendrocrinida - Dendrocrinidae

Taxonomy
Dendrocrinus casei was named by Meek (1871). It is not extant. It is the type species of Plicodendrocrinus.

It was recombined as Plicodendrocrinus casei by Ausich and Copper (2010), Ausich and Cournoyer (2019).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. australis
Entered
by P. Novack-Gottshall on 2019-06-24

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1871Dendrocrinus casei Meek
2010Plicodendrocrinus casei Ausich and Copper p. 42
2019Plicodendrocrinus casei Ausich and Cournoyer

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
—Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumBlastozoa
classCrinoideaMiller 1821
subclassPentacrinoideaJaekel 1918
RankNameAuthor
infraclassInadunata(Wachsmuth and Springer 1897)
—Cladida(Moore and Laudon 1943)
—Eucladida
superorderCyathoformes
orderDendrocrinida()
superfamilyDendrocrinaceaWachsmuth and Springer 1886
familyDendrocrinidaeWachsmuth and Springer 1886
genusPlicodendrocrinusBrower 1995
speciescasei(Meek 1871)

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available