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Protocaudina botoni

Ophiocistioidea - Rotasacciidae

Taxonomy
Microantyx botoni was named by Gutschick (1959). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is Holotype U.S.N.M. 137039, paratype U.S.N.M. 137040 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Meadel Ditch Quarry, which is in a Kinderhookian offshore mudstone/limestone in the Rockford Limestone Formation of Indiana.

It was recombined as Protocaudina botoni by Ogawa et al. (2019).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1959Microantyx botoni Gutschick p. 133 figs. text-fig. 3, pl. 26 figs 22,23,28,29
1962Microantyx botoni Deflandre-Rigaud p. 100
1967Microantyx botoni Gutschick et al. p. 1472 figs. Pl. 186, figs. 41-53; Pl. 187, fig. 16
1971Microantyx botoni Mostler p. 10 figs. pl. 2 figs 16, 17
1976Microantyx botoni Mostler and Rahimi-Yazd p. 22 figs. pl. 1 figs 1-5, 7, 11
1977Microantyx botoni Wernlund pp. 77-78 figs. PI. 4 figs 8-9
2019Protocaudina botoni Ogawa et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
RankNameAuthor
subphylumEleutherozoa
Echinozoa()
classOphiocistioidea()
familyRotasacciidae
genusProtocaudina
speciesbotoni()

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.

Protocaudina botoni Gutschick 1959
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Diagnosis
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