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Salenia cascadensis
Taxonomy
Salenia cascadensis was named by Linder et al. (1988). Its type specimen is UCMP 38194, a test, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Butte Creek [Abiqua Mbr, Scotts Mills Fm], which is in a Chattian shallow subtidal limestone in the Scotts Mills Formation of Oregon.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1988 | Salenia cascadensis Linder et al. p. 946 figs. figs. 2.1, 2.3 |
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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.
†Salenia cascadensis Linder et al. 1988
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| R. A. Linder et al. 1988 | Test small and hemispherical; ambulacra straight and narrow, bigeminate with demiplates; primary ambulacral tubercles noncrenulate and imperforate; pore pair zones straight, each in a well, surrounded by prominent ridges; interambulacra at least three times as wide as ambulacra; primary tubercles large, crenulate, imperforate; |
Measurements
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Aberhan 1992, Kiessling 2004 | |||||