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Mycedium

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae

Taxonomy
Mycedium was named by Oken (1815) [Sepkoski's age data: T Plio R Sepkoski's reference number: 796]. It is extant.

It was assigned to Pectiniidae by Wells (1956); to Scleractinia by Sepkoski (2002); and to Merulinidae by Huang et al. (2014).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1815Mycedium Oken
1956Mycedium Wells
2002Mycedium Sepkoski
2014Mycedium Huang et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
Hexacorallia()
RankNameAuthor
orderScleractiniaBourne 1900
familyMerulinidaeVerrill 1866
genusMycediumOken 1815

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.

G. Mycedium Oken 1815
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Invalid names: Mycedium tubifex Dana 1846 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragoniteo
Grouping: colonialo
Clonal: yeso
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: stationaryo
Attached: yeso
Life habit: intermediate-level epifaunalo
Diet: microcarnivoreo
Diet 2: photosymbiotico
Vision: blindc
Reproduction: alternatingo
Asexual: yeso
Dispersal: watero
Dispersal 2: planktonico
Created: 2004-02-27 16:54:46
Modified: 2009-10-09 15:38:42
Source: o = order, c = class
Reference: Kiessling 2004

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Early/Lower Pliocene to the top of the Holocene or 5.33300 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.6 Ma

Collections (9 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Miocene - Pliocene11.63 - 2.58Indonesia M. sp. (109227)
Early/Lower Pliocene5.333 - 3.6Indonesia (Java) M. tubifex (45343)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.58Indonesia (Maluku) M. tubifex (127839)
Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene2.58 - 0.129Japan M. sp. (81581)
Pleistocene2.58 - 0.0117Indonesia M. elephantotus (104657)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Saudi Arabia M. elephantotus (80963)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Australia (New South Wales) M. elephantotus (84621)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117Egypt (Sinai) M. sp. (109224)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Australia (Queensland) M. sp. (166503)