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Elassocrinus delicatulus

Crinoidea - Dendrocrinida - Aesiocrinidae

Taxonomy
Aesiocrinus delicatulus was named by Lane and Webster (1966) [Holotype now at Los Angeles County Museum]. Its type specimen is UCLA 39600, a calyx, and it is not a trace fossil. It is the type species of Elassocrinus.

It was recombined as Elassocrinus delicatulus by Webster and Lane (2007).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1966Aesiocrinus delicatulus Lane and Webster p. 53 figs. Pl 7, fig 6; text-fig 19
2007Elassocrinus delicatulus Webster and Lane p. 961

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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
familyAesiocrinidae
genusElassocrinus
speciesdelicatulus()

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.

†Elassocrinus delicatulus Lane and Webster 1966
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Diagnosis
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