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Cidaris pratti

Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae

Taxonomy
Cidaris pratti was named by Clark and Twitchell (1915). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Wilmington (Castle Hayne LS, N. Carolina), which is in a Bartonian marine wackestone/grainstone in the Castle Hayne Formation of North Carolina.

It was synonymized subjectively with Cidaris smithi by Cooke (1941).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1915Cidaris pratti Clark and Twitchell p. 114 figs. Plate LV, Fig. 3
1980Cidaris pratti Kier p. 17

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
Echinozoa()
RankNameAuthor
classEchinoidea()
subclassCidaroidea(Claus 1880)
orderCidaroida()
superfamilyCidarideaGray 1825
familyCidaridae
genusCidarisLeske 1778
speciespratti

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.

Cidaris pratti Clark and Twitchell 1915
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Diagnosis
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