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Neocrinus

Crinoidea - Isocrinida - Isocrinidae

Taxonomy
Pentacrinus (Neocrinus) was named by Wyville Thomson (1864) [Sepkoski's age data: K Nc R]. It is extant.

It was reranked as Neocrinus by Rasmussen (1961), Donovan (1994), Sepkoski (2002), Donovan et al. (2005) and Hess and Messing (2011).

It was assigned to Pentacrinus by Wyville Thomson (1864); to Isocrinida by Sepkoski (2002); to Isocrinidae by Rasmussen (1961), Donovan (1994) and Donovan et al. (2005); and to Isocrininae by Hess and Messing (2011).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1864Pentacrinus (Neocrinus) Wyville Thomson
1961Neocrinus Rasmussen p. 89
1994Neocrinus Donovan p. 196
2002Neocrinus Sepkoski
2005Neocrinus Donovan et al. p. 96
2011Neocrinus Hess and Messing p. 55

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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
infraorderArticulata(Miller 1821)
orderIsocrinidaSieverts-Doreck 1952
suborderIsocrininaSieverts-Doreck 1952
familyIsocrinidaeGislén 1924
genusNeocrinus(Wyville Thomson 1864)

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.

G. Neocrinus Wyville Thomson 1864
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Neocrinus australis Moore 1870
Neocrinus decorus Thompson 1864
Neocrinus tenellus Eichwald 1868
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available