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Platycrinites lodensis

Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae

Taxonomy

Platycrinus lodensis was named by Hall and Whitfield (1875).

It was recombined as Platycrinites lodensis by Bassler and Moodey (1943), Ausich and Roeser (2012).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

P. bellmanensis, P. bonoensis, P. conglobatus, P. crassiconus, P. decadactylus, P. diadema, P. externus, P. georgii, P. gigas, P. glyptus, P. granulatus, P. hemispericus, P. hemisphaericus, P. hemisphericus, P. humilis, P. insulsus, P. invertielensis, P. jameswrighti, P. megastylus, P. nodostriatus, P. pileatus, P. planus, P. saffordi, P. safordi, P. sculptus, P. spinifer, P. spiniger, P. sunwaptaensis, P. yandelli

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1875	Platycrinus lodensis Hall and Whitfield p. 168 figs. pl. 2, fig. 3
1889	Platycrinus lodiensis Lesley p. 688 fig. 3
1943	Platycrinites lodensis Bassler and Moodey p. 623
2012	Platycrinites lodensis Ausich and Roeser p. 504

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
—	Ambulacraria
phylum	Echinodermata
subphylum	Blastozoa
class	Crinoidea	Miller 1821

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Camerata	Wachsmuth and Springer 1885
infraclass	Eucamerata	Cole 2017
order	Monobathrida	Moore and Laudon 1943
suborder	Glyptocrinina	Moore 1952
superfamily	Platycrinitoidea	(Austin and Austin 1843)
family	Platycrinitidae	Bassler 1938
genus	Platycrinites	Miller 1821
species	lodensis	(Hall and Whitfield 1875)

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.

†Platycrinites lodensis Hall and Whitfield 1875

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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:

stationaryo

Attached:

yeso

Life habit:

upper-level epifaunalo

Diet:

suspension feedero

Vision:

blindc

Dispersal:

waterp

Dispersal 2:

planktonicp

Created:

2004-02-28 17:13:32

Modified:

2009-10-09 13:32:16

Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum

References: Kiessling 2004, Aberhan et al. 2004, Aberhan 1992

Age range: Kinderhookian or 358.86000 to 351.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Kinderhookian	358.86 - 351.9	USA (Ohio)	Platycrinites lodensis (type locality: 236671 276404)