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Salenia tumidula

Echinoidea - Salenioida - Saleniidae

Taxonomy
Salenia tumidula was named by Clark (1801). Its type specimen is ANSP 1448, a test, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Timber Creek - Vincentown Fm, which is in a Paleocene coastal sandstone in the Vincentown Formation of New Jersey.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
S. coniae, S. geometrica, S. prestensis, S. pretensis

Synonyms
  • Salenia bellula was named by Clark (1801). Its type specimen is ANSP 1446, a test, and it is a 3D body fossil.

    It was synonymized subjectively with Salenia tumidula by Cooke (1959).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1801Salenia bellula Clark p. 75
1801Salenia tumidula Clark p. 75
1915Salenia tumidula Clark and Twitchell p. 50
1915Salenia bellula Clark and Twitchell p. 51
1941Salenia bellula Cooke p. 7
1941Salenia tumidula Cooke p. 7
1959Salenia tumidula Cooke p. 13

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
—Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
—Echinozoa()
classEchinoidea()
RankNameAuthor
subclassEuechinoideaBronn 1860
superorderAcroechinoidea()
—Carinacea
—Calycina(Gregory 1900)
orderSalenioida()
familySaleniidae()
genusSalenia
speciestumidulaClark 1801

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 tumidula Clark 1801
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Invalid names: Salenia bellula Clark 1801 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: high Mg calciteo
Ontogeny: accretion, addition of partsp
Environment: marinep
Locomotion: slow-movingo
Life habit: low-level epifaunalo
Diet: omnivoreo
Vision: limitedc
Dispersal: waterp
Dispersal 2: planktonicp
Created: 2004-02-29 10:07:36
Modified: 2009-12-13 03:48:52
Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004, Aberhan 1992

Age range: Late/Upper Paleocene or 59.24000 to 56.00000 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Paleocene59.24 - 56.0USA (New Jersey) Salenia tumidula (type locality: 155898 155904 155905 211306)
Thanetian59.24 - 56.0USA (New Jersey) Salenia tumidula (3113 124966)