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Kewia fairbanksi

Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Echinarachniidae

Taxonomy
Scutella fairbanksi was named by Arnold (1907). Its type specimen is UCMP 11017 and is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Echinarachnius fairbanksi by Grant and Hertlein (1938); it was recombined as Kewia fairbanksi by Durham (1955).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1907Scutella fairbanksi Arnold p. 542 figs. pl. 46, fig. 3; pl. 43, figs. 5, 5a
1909Scutella fairbanksi Pack p. 276
1915Scutella fairbanksi Clark and Twitchell p. 184
1920Scutella fairbanksi Kew pp. 66 - 67 figs. Plate 11, figures 2a, 26, 2c
1932Scutella fairbanksi Loel and Corey p. 177 figs. Plate 4, figures 3, 4a, 4b, 5, 6
1938Echinarachnius fairbanksi Grant and Hertlein p. 58
1955Kewia fairbanksi Durham p. 166

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
—Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
—Echinozoa()
classEchinoidea()
subclassEuechinoideaBronn 1860
superorderAcroechinoidea()
RankNameAuthor
—Carinacea
—Irregularia()
—Microstomata
—Neognathostomata
orderClypeasteroida
suborderScutellina()
infraorderScutelliformes
familyEchinarachniidae
genusKewiaNisiyama 1935
speciesfairbanksi(Arnold 1907)

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.

†Kewia fairbanksi Arnold 1907
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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: slow-movingo
Life habit: semi-infaunalo
Diet: detritivoreo
Vision: limitedc
Dispersal: waterp
Dispersal 2: planktonicp
Created: 2004-02-28 18:19:59
Modified: 2009-10-08 15:05:22
Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004, Aberhan 1992

Age range: Aquitanian or 23.04000 to 20.45000 Ma

Collections (24 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Aquitanian23.04 - 20.45USA (California) Scutella fairbanksi (100260)
Early/Lower Miocene23.04 - 15.98USA (California) Echinarachnius fairbanksi (94816) Kewia fairbanksi (94850 94862 94865) Scutella fairbanksi (71217 71223 71226 71227 71228 71229 71230 91374 237915 237917 238140 238143 238145 238163 238164 238166 238172 238179 238190)