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Tapinocrinus macurdai

Crinoidea - Dendrocrinida - Graphiocrinidae

Taxonomy
Tapinocrinus macurdai was named by Webster (1987). Its type specimen is WAM 84.656, a calyx, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Callytharra Springs, Type Section, Carnarvon Basin, which is in a Sakmarian marine mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in the Callytharra Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Tapinocrinus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1987Tapinocrinus macurdai Webster p. 118 figs. 12M-DD

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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
superfamilyGraphiocrinoidea
familyGraphiocrinidaeWachsmuth and Springer 1886
genusTapinocrinus
speciesmacurdai

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.

†Tapinocrinus macurdai Webster 1987
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