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Meganotocrinus tuberculatus

Crinoidea - Ampelocrinida - Tribrachyocrinidae

Taxonomy
Meganotocrinus tuberculatus was named by Willink (1979). Its type specimen is ANU 35048, a calyx (Incomplete cup with attached brachials), and it is a mold. Its type locality is Selby's Rock, Broger's Creek, Kangaroo Valley, which is in a Wordian marine siliciclastic in the Berry Formation of Australia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1979Meganotocrinus tuberculatus Willink p. 188 figs. Pl 13, fig 8

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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
speciestuberculatus

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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Diagnosis
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