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Goniocrinus sceletus

Crinoidea - Dendrocrinida - Mastigocrinidae

Taxonomy
Goniocrinus sceletus was named by Kammer and Roeser (2012). Its type specimen is CMCIP 46161 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Richfield Township, Meadville Shale, James Hall's crinoid locality, which is in a Kinderhookian open shallow subtidal siltstone/shale in the Cuyahoga Formation of Ohio.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
G. angulatus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2012Goniocrinus sceletus Kammer and Roeser p. 476

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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
superorderCyathoformes
orderDendrocrinida
superfamilyMastigocrinoidea(Jaekel 1918)
familyMastigocrinidaeJaekel 1918
genusGoniocrinusMiller and Gurley 1890
speciessceletus

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.

†Goniocrinus sceletus Kammer and Roeser 2012
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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: stationarysubc
Attached: yessubc
Life habit: intermediate-level epifaunalsubc
Diet: suspension feedersubc
Vision: blindc
Dispersal: waterp
Dispersal 2: planktonicp
Created: 2009-10-09 11:50:31
Modified: 2009-10-09 13:50:31
Source: subc = subclass, c = class, p = phylum
References: Aberhan 1992, Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Kinderhookian or 358.86000 to 351.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Kinderhookian358.86 - 351.9USA (Ohio) Goniocrinus sceletus (type locality: 236671)