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Tribrachyocrinus

Crinoidea

Taxonomy
Tribrachyocrinus was named by M'Coy (1847) [Sepkoski's age data: P Leon P Guad-u]. Its type is Tribrachyocrinus clarkii. It is the type genus of Tribrachyocrinidae.

It was corrected as Tribrachiocrinus by Etheridge (1892).

It was assigned to Poteriocrinidae by Etheridge (1892); to Tribrachyocrinidae by Arendt (1981), Webster and Jell (1999); to Cladida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Articuliformes by Wright (2017).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1847Pentadia Dana p. 152
1847Pentadia reniformis Dana p. 152
1847Pentadia spatangus Dana p. 152
1847Pentadia trigona Dana p. 152
1847Tribrachyocrinus M'Coy p. 228
1892Tribrachiocrinus Etheridge Jr. p. 82
1981Tribrachyocrinus Arendt p. 15
1999Tribrachyocrinus Webster and Jell p. 329
2002Tribrachyocrinus Sepkoski
2017Tribrachyocrinus Wright

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumBlastozoa
RankNameAuthor
classCrinoideaMiller 1821
subclassPentacrinoideaJaekel 1918
infraclassInadunata(Wachsmuth and Springer 1897)
Cladida(Moore and Laudon 1943)
Eucladida
ArticuliformesWright 2017
genusTribrachyocrinus

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.

G. †Tribrachyocrinus M'Coy 1847
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Tribrachyocrinus granulatus Etheridge Jr. 1892
Tribrachyocrinus rattei Willink 1979
Invalid names: Pentadia Dana 1847 [nomen dubium], Pentadia reniformis Dana 1847 [nomen dubium], Pentadia spatangus Dana 1847 [nomen dubium], Pentadia trigona Dana 1847 [nomen dubium]
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: Aberhan 1992, Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Artinskian to the top of the Wuchiapingian or 290.10000 to 254.14000 Ma

Collections (21 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Artinskian290.1 - 283.3Australia (Queensland) T. sp. A (120680)
Roadian274.4 - 266.9Australia (New South Wales) T. clarkii (161842) T. etheridgei (37634 82848) T. etheridgei, T. corrugatus (103569)
Wordian266.9 - 264.28New Zealand (Nelson) Tribrachiocrinus sp. (41797)
Wordian266.9 - 264.28Australia (New South Wales) Pentadia spatangus, Pentadia reniformis, Pentadia trigona (133337) T. brogerensis (88233 133294) T. brogerensis, T. corrugatus (120677) T. clarkii (133343) T. granulatus (120679) T. rattei, T. pseudoclarkei, T. clarkei (87197) T. singletonensis (120678) T. sp. (105160 120675 120681) T. sp., T. brogerensis, T. corrugatus, T. rattei (86574)
Wordian266.9 - 264.28Australia (Tasmania) T. sp. B, T. corrugatus, T. granulatus (83175)
Wordian - Wuchiapingian266.9 - 254.14Australia (Queensland) T. sp. A (83193)
Wuchiapingian259.51 - 254.14Australia (Queensland) T. sp. (120592)