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Clypeaster maoadentroensis

Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Clypeasteridae

Taxonomy

Clypeaster maoadentroensis was named by Kier (1992) [TYPE LOCALITY: Mao Adentro Limestone (Early Pliocene), Rio Cana section, Dominican Republic. TYPE REPOSITORY: NMB, Basel, Switzerland.]. Its type specimen is NMB M9746, a test, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is NMB Loc. 17022 - Río Cana [Mao Fm], which is in a Pliocene marine horizon in the Mao Formation of the Dominican Republic.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

C. acclivis, C. acuminatus, C. aegyptiacus, C. altus, C. australasiae, C. biarritzensis, C. calabrus, C. campanulatus, C. intermedius, C. julii, C. kamaranense, C. lamberti, C. lamegoi, C. lanceolata, C. latirostris, C. marginatus, C. martini, C. ogasawaraensis, C. paraensis, C. paulinoi, C. portentosus, C. profondus, C. redeii, C. reideii, C. reticulatis, C. scillae, C. scutiformis, C. sowerbyi, C. subdebresus, C. subfolium, C. tauricus, C. depressus, C. confusus

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1992	Clypeaster maoadentroensis Kier pp. 17-18 figs. pl. 4, figs. 5-7

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
—	Ambulacraria
phylum	Echinodermata
subphylum	Eleutherozoa
—	Echinozoa	()
class	Echinoidea	()
subclass	Euechinoidea	Bronn 1860

Rank	Name	Author
superorder	Acroechinoidea	()
—	Carinacea
—	Irregularia	()
—	Microstomata
—	Neognathostomata
order	Clypeasteroida
suborder	Clypeasterina	()
family	Clypeasteridae	()
genus	Clypeaster
species	maoadentroensis

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.

†Clypeaster maoadentroensis Kier 1992

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

Age range: Early/Lower Pliocene or 5.33300 to 3.60000 Ma

Collections: one only

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Pliocene	5.333 - 3.6	Dominican Republic	Clypeaster maoadentroensis (type locality: 90591)