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Uintacrinidae

Crinoidea - Comatulida - Uintacrinidae

Taxonomy
Uintacrinidae was named by Zittel (1879). Its type is Uintacrinus.

It was assigned to Dendrocrinoidea by Clark and Twitchell (1915); to Uintacrinida by Rasmussen (1961); and to Uintacrinoidea by Hess and Messing (2011).

Subtaxa
Uintacrinus (type genus)

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1879Uintacrinidae Zittel pp. 345, 375
1915Uintacrinidae Clark and Twitchell p. 35
1961Uintacrinidae Rasmussen p. 400
2011Uintacrinidae Hess and Messing p. 96

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumBlastozoa
classCrinoideaMiller 1821
subclassPentacrinoideaJaekel 1918
RankNameAuthor
infraclassInadunata(Wachsmuth and Springer 1897)
Cladida(Moore and Laudon 1943)
Eucladida
subclassArticulata(Miller 1821)
orderComatulidaClark 1908
suborderComatulidinaClark 1908
superfamilyUintacrinoideaZittel 1879
familyUintacrinidaeZittel 1879
familyUintacrinidaeZittel 1879

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.

Fm. †Uintacrinidae Zittel 1879
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G. †Uintacrinus Grinnell 1876
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Uintacrinus anglicus Rasmussen 1961
Uintacrinus socialis Grinnell 1876
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Invalid names: Uintacrinus westfalicus Schlüter 1878 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: high Mg calciteo
Ontogeny: accretion, addition of partsp
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: facultatively mobileo
Attached: yeso
Life habit: intermediate-level epifaunalo
Diet: suspension feedero
Vision: blindc
Dispersal: waterp
Dispersal 2: planktonicp
Created: 2004-02-28 16:07:27
Modified: 2009-10-08 14:29:07
Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum
References: Aberhan 1992, Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Santonian to the top of the Santonian or 85.70000 to 83.60000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Coniacian - Santonian89.8 - 83.6Canada (Alberta) Uintacrinus socialis (87433)
Coniacian - Santonian89.8 - 83.6USA (Kansas) Uintacrinus socialis (85278)
Late/Upper Santonian85.7 - 83.6Jamaica Uintacrinus socialis (99827)
Middle Santonian - Late/Upper Santonian85.7 - 83.6France Uintacrinus sp. (59652)