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Salenia sigillata

Echinoidea - Salenioida - Saleniidae

Taxonomy
Salenia sigillata was named by Schluter (1892).

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

Synonyms
  • Salenia rutoti was named by Lambert (1911). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Slenaken (KBIN collection), which is in a Maastrichtian carbonate chalk in the Gulpen Formation of the Netherlands.

    It was synonymized subjectively with Salenia sigillata by Geys (1979).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1892Salenia sigillata Schluter
1911Salenia rutoti Lambert
1979Salenia sigillata Geys p. 317 figs. 12.1-12.5

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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
speciessigillataSchluter 1892

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 sigillata Schluter 1892
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Invalid names: Salenia rutoti Lambert 1911 [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: Kiessling 2004, Aberhan et al. 2004, Aberhan 1992

Age range: Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 72.20000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0Belgium Salenia sigillata (196784)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0Netherlands Salenia rutoti (196783)