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Pararachnastraea lewisi

Anthozoa - Stauriida - Durhaminidae

Taxonomy
Pararachnastraea lewisi was named by Stevens and Rycerski (1989). Its type specimen is GSC 85289 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is GSC 43289 (SE-156a-59), Iskut River, Stikine, which is in a Sakmarian shallow subtidal limestone in Canada. It is the type species of Pararachnastraea.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1989Kleopatrina stikinensis Stevens and Rycerski p. 174 figs. 12.1-12.5
1989Pararachnastraea lewisi Stevens and Rycerski p. 174 figs. 9.3,12.6-12.8,12.10,13.4
2007Pararachnastraea lewisi Fedorowski et al. p. 65 figs. Pl 3, figs 1-5; text-fig 22a,b

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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
specieslewisi

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.

†Pararachnastraea lewisi Stevens and Rycerski 1989
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Invalid names: Kleopatrina stikinensis Stevens and Rycerski 1989 [synonym]
Diagnosis
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