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Tribrachyocrinus brogerensis

Crinoidea - Ampelocrinida - Tribrachyocrinidae

Taxonomy
Tribrachyocrinus brogerensis was named by Willink (1979) [Australian Museum, Sydney]. Its type specimen is AMF 57680a, a calyx, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Selby's Rock, Broger's Creek, Kangaroo Valley, which is in a Wordian marine siliciclastic in the Berry Formation of Australia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1979Tribrachyocrinus brogerensis Willink p. 155 figs. Pl 3, figs 1-12

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumBlastozoa
classCrinoideaMiller 1821
RankNameAuthor
subclassPentacrinoideaJaekel 1918
infraclassInadunata(Wachsmuth and Springer 1897)
Cladida(Moore and Laudon 1943)
orderAmpelocrinida
familyTribrachyocrinidaeArendt and Willink 1981
genusTribrachyocrinus
speciesbrogerensis

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
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: high Mg calcitec
Ontogeny: accretion, addition of partsp
Environment: marinep
Locomotion: stationarysubc
Attached: yessubc
Life habit: intermediate-level epifaunalsubc
Diet: suspension feedersubc
Vision: blindc
Dispersal: waterp
Dispersal 2: planktonicp
Created: 2009-10-09 11:50:31
Modified: 2009-10-09 13:50:31
Source: subc = subclass, c = class, p = phylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Aberhan 1992, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Wordian or 266.90000 to 264.28000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Wordian266.9 - 264.28Australia (New South Wales) Tribrachyocrinus brogerensis (type locality: 86574 88233 120677 133294)