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Grewingkia whitei

Anthozoa - Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae

Taxonomy
Grewingkia whitei was named by Pestana (1960). Its type specimen is UCMP 37703 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCMP loc. B6091, Lead Canyon Section, Mazourka Canyon, which is in a Trentonian marine limestone/quartzite in the Johnson Spring Formation of California.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
G. franklinensis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1960Grewingkia whitei Pestana p. 868 figs. Pl. 111, figs. 1, 2, 6
1981Grewingkia whitei Elias p. 11

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
—Hexacorallia()
subclassRugosa(Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850)
orderStauriidaVerrill 1865
RankNameAuthor
suborderStreptelasmatinaWedekind 1927
familyStreptelasmatidae(Nicholson 1889)
subfamilyStreptelasmatinaeNicholson 1889
genusGrewingkiaDybowski 1873
specieswhitei

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.

†Grewingkia whitei Pestana 1960
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available