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Pararachnastraea illipahensis

Anthozoa - Stauriida - Durhaminidae

Taxonomy
Lonsdaleia illipahensis was named by Easton (1960). Its type specimen is USC 5122 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USC Loc. 336 - Ruby Marsh Road, which is in an Artinskian open shallow subtidal limestone in Nevada.

It was recombined as Kleopatrina (Porfirievella) illipahensis by Stevens (1967); it was recombined as Pararachnastraea illipahensis by Fedorowski et al. (2007).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1960Lonsdaleia illipahensis Easton p. 580 fig. 15,16
1967Kleopatrina (Porfirievella) illipahensis Stevens figs. Pl 54, figs 2,3
2007Pararachnastraea illipahensis Fedorowski et al. p. 66

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
Hexacorallia()
subclassRugosa(Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850)
RankNameAuthor
orderStauriidaVerrill 1865
suborderColumnariinaRominger 1876
familyDurhaminidaeMinato and Kato 1965
genusPararachnastraea
speciesillipahensis()

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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