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Archaeosycon

Archaeocyatha - Archaeocyathida - Archaeosyconidae

Taxonomy
Archaeosycon is a genus. It is not extant. It is the type genus of Archaeosyconidae.

It was assigned to Archaeocyathida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Archaeosyconidae by Kerner et al. (2011) and Debrenne et al. (2015).

Species
Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1987Pustulacyathellus Debrenne and Gangloff
1987Pustulacyathellus Voronova et al.
2002Archaeosycon Sepkoski
2011Archaeosycon Kerner et al. p. http://archaeocyatha.infosyslab.fr/gener
2015Archaeosycon Debrenne et al. p. 1058

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumPoriferaGrant 1836
classArchaeocyatha(Vologdin 1937)
orderArchaeocyathidaOkulitch 1935
RankNameAuthor
suborderArchaeocyathinaOkulitch 1935
superfamilyArchaeocyathoideaHinde 1889
familyArchaeosyconidaeZhuravleva 1954
genusArchaeosycon

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.

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Archaeosycon balsami McMenamin et al. 2000
Invalid names: Pustulacyathellus Debrenne and Gangloff 1987 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available