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Illusioluidia teneryi

Asteroidea - Kermasida - Illusioluididae

Taxonomy
Illusioluidia teneryi was named by Blake and Guensburg (1989). It is not extant. Its type specimen is Holotype USNM 424901. Its type locality is Asteroidea, Wolf Mountain shale, Lake Bridgeport, Wise County, which is in a Missourian marginal marine shale in the Wolf Mountain Shale Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Illusioluidia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1989Illusioluidia teneryi Blake and Guensburg pp. 665-667 figs. figs. 1.1-1.3, 1.6-1.11, 2, 4
2018Illusioluidia teneryi Blake p. 48

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
RankNameAuthor
Asterozoa()
classAsteroidea
orderKermasida
familyIllusioluididaeBlake 2018
genusIllusioluidia
speciesteneryi

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.

Illusioluidia teneryi Blake and Guensburg 1989
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
D. B. Blake and T. E. Guensburg 1989Same as genus, by monotypy
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: high Mg calcitec
Ontogeny: accretion, addition of partsp
Environment: marinep
Locomotion: slow-movingc
Life habit: low-level epifaunalc
Diet: carnivorec
Vision: limitedc
Dispersal: waterp
Dispersal 2: planktonicp
Created: 2004-02-28 15:35:10
Modified: 2010-02-09 06:02:08
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Aberhan 1992

Age range: Missourian or 306.00000 to 303.70000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Missourian306.0 - 303.7USA (Texas) Illusioluidia teneryi (type locality: 72185)