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Isocrinus amblyscalaris

Crinoidea - Isocrinida - Isocrinidae

Taxonomy

Pentacrinus amblyscalaris was named by Thurmann (1861).

It was recombined as Isocrinus amblyscalaris by Salamon et al. (2020).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

I. angulatus, I. angustatus, I. apetalus, I. bajocensis, I. candelabrum, I. cenomanicus, I. cretaceous, I. desori, I. fittoni, I. granulosus, I. gravinse, I. rollieri, I. rupellensis, I. sassostriensis, I. stellatus, I. trechmanni, I. tuberculatus, I. tyrolensis, I. undulatus, I. hanaii

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1861	Pentacrinus amblyscalaris Thurmann p. 351
2020	Isocrinus amblyscalaris Salamon et al. p. 7 figs. Fig. 3B-E

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
—	Ambulacraria
phylum	Echinodermata
subphylum	Blastozoa
class	Crinoidea	Miller 1821
subclass	Pentacrinoidea	Jaekel 1918
infraclass	Inadunata	(Wachsmuth and Springer 1897)

Rank	Name	Author
—	Cladida	(Moore and Laudon 1943)
—	Eucladida
subclass	Articulata	(Miller 1821)
order	Isocrinida	Sieverts-Doreck 1952
suborder	Isocrinina	Sieverts-Doreck 1952
family	Isocrinidae	Gislén 1924
subfamily	Isocrininae	Gislen 1924
genus	Isocrinus	von Meyer 1836
species	amblyscalaris	(Thurmann 1861)

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.

†Isocrinus amblyscalaris Thurmann 1861

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

high Mg calcitec

Ontogeny:

accretion, addition of partsp

Environment:

marinep

Locomotion:

stationaryf

Attached:

yesf

Life habit:

upper-level epifaunalf

Diet:

suspension feederf

Vision:

blindc

Dispersal:

waterp

Dispersal 2:

planktonicp

Created:

2014-09-12 15:03:18

Modified:

2014-09-12 15:03:18

Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum

References: Kiessling 2004, Aberhan 1992, Donovan 1994

Age range: base of the Callovian to the top of the Oxfordian or 165.30000 to 154.80000 Ma

Collections: one only

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Callovian - Oxfordian	165.3 - 154.8	Ukraine	Isocrinus amblyscalaris (67868)