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Protomichelinia crassabnormis

Anthozoa - Favositida - Micheliniidae

Taxonomy
Protomichelinia crassabnormis was named by Wu and Zhao (1982). Its type specimen is NIGP 62072 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Qixia Mountain, Qixia Fm, Nanjing City, which is in a Kungurian open shallow subtidal limestone in the Qixia Formation of China.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. sinensis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1982Protomichelinia crassabnormis Wu and Zhao p. 170 figs. Pl 64, fig 4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
subclassTabulataMilne-Edwards and Haime 1850
orderFavositidaWedekind 1937
RankNameAuthor
suborderFavositinaWedekind 1937
superfamilyFavositoidea(Dana 1846)
familyMicheliniidaeWaagen and Wentzel 1886
genusProtomichelinia(Yabe and Hayasaka 1915)
speciescrassabnormis

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.

†Protomichelinia crassabnormis Wu and Zhao 1982
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: low Mg calcitesubc
Locomotion: stationarysubc
Attached: yessubc
Life habit: epifaunalsubc
Diet: suspension feedersubc
Diet 2: photosymbioticsubc
Vision: blindc
Created: 2004-02-27 16:54:11
Modified: 2004-02-28 16:53:41
Source: subc = subclass, c = class
Reference: Kiessling 2004

Age range: Kungurian or 283.30000 to 274.40000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Kungurian283.3 - 274.4China (Jiangsu) Protomichelinia crassabnormis (type locality: 100816)