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Meganotocrinus princeps

Crinoidea - Ampelocrinida - Tribrachyocrinidae

Taxonomy
Phialocrinus princeps was named by Etheridge (1892). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bow-Wow Creek, Mount Vincent, which is in a Wordian marine siltstone in the Muree Formation of Australia.

It was recombined as Meganotocrinus princeps by Willink (1979) and Webster and Jell (1999).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1892Phialocrinus princeps Etheridge Jr. p. 110 figs. Pl 17, fig 1; pl 18, fig 1; pl 22, fig 5
1979Meganotocrinus princeps Willink p. 186 figs. Pl 12, figs 1-5; pl 13, figs 1-7
1999Meganotocrinus princeps Webster and Jell p. 331 fig. 31

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
—Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumBlastozoa
classCrinoideaMiller 1821
RankNameAuthor
subclassPentacrinoideaJaekel 1918
infraclassInadunata(Wachsmuth and Springer 1897)
—Cladida(Moore and Laudon 1943)
orderAmpelocrinida
familyTribrachyocrinidaeArendt and Willink 1981
genusMeganotocrinus
speciesprinceps()

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.

†Meganotocrinus princeps Etheridge Jr. 1892
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available