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Diademopsis serialis

Echinoidea - Pedinoida - Pedinidae

Taxonomy
Echinus seriale was named by Agassiz (1838).

It was corrected as Echinus serialis by Wright (1851); it was recombined as Diademopsis serialis by Smith (2015).

Synonyms
  • Hemipedina bechei was named by Wright (1855). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Lyme Regis, Bowerbank collection, which is in a Planorbis carbonate shale in the Blue Lias Formation of the United Kingdom.

    It was synonymized subjectively with Diademopsis serialis by Smith (2015).
  • Hemipedina bowerbankii was named by Wright (1855). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Lyme Regis, Bowerbank collection, which is in a Planorbis carbonate shale in the Blue Lias Formation of the United Kingdom.

    It was synonymized subjectively with Diademopsis serialis by Smith (2015).
  • Hemipedina tomesii was named by Wright (1861). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Stoneythorpe, which is in a Rhaetian carbonate limestone in the Lilstock Formation of the United Kingdom.

    It was synonymized subjectively with Diademopsis serialis by Smith (2015).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1838Echinus seriale Agassiz
1851Echinus serialis Wright p. 276 figs. Pl 13, figs 2a-d
1855Hemipedina bechei Wright
1855Hemipedina bowerbankii Wright
1861Hemipedina tomesii Wright
2015Diademopsis serialis Smith p. 58 figs. Pls 33, 34; text-fig 9A,B

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
—Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
—Echinozoa()
RankNameAuthor
classEchinoidea()
subclassEuechinoideaBronn 1860
superorderAcroechinoidea()
orderPedinoida()
familyPedinidae()
genusDiademopsis
speciesserialis(Agassiz 1838)

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.

†Diademopsis serialis Agassiz 1838
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Invalid names: Hemipedina bechei Wright 1855 [synonym], Hemipedina bowerbankii Wright 1855 [synonym], Hemipedina tomesii Wright 1861 [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: detritivoreo
Vision: limitedc
Dispersal: waterp
Dispersal 2: planktonicp
Created: 2004-02-29 10:05:28
Modified: 2009-12-13 03:46:48
Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum
References: Aberhan 1992, Kiessling 2004, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: base of the Rhaetian to the top of the Bucklandi or 208.50000 to 189.60000 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Rhaetian208.5 - 201.3United Kingdom (Warwickshire) Hemipedina tomesii (196363)
Early/Lower Hettangian201.3 - 196.5France Diademopsis serialis (39215)
Planorbis201.3 - 196.5France Diademopsis serialis (39380)
Planorbis201.3 - 196.5United Kingdom (England) Diademopsis serialis (196364) Hemipedina bechei, Hemipedina bowerbankii (196362) Hemipedina tomesii (123982)
Bucklandi196.5 - 189.6United Kingdom (Gloucestershire) Diademopsis serialis (159419)