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Echinoconchus elegans

Strophomenata - Productida - Echinoconchidae

Taxonomy
Productus elegans was named by Norwood and Pratten (1855).

It was recombined as Diaphragmus elegans by Girty (1910) and Weller (1914); it was recombined as Echinoconchus elegans by Ustritsky and Chernyak (1963).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1844Productus elegans M'Coy
1855Productus elegans Norwood and Pratten
1855Productus flexistria Norwood and Pratten p. 6
1860Productus cestriensis Worthen p. 570
1906Productus elegans Keidel p. 369 figs. Pl 12, figs 7,8
1910Diaphragmus elegans Girty
1913Productus elegans Mansuy p. 30 figs. Pl 2, fig 3
1914Diaphragmus elegans Weller
1938Productus elegans Sutton p. 559 figs. Plate 64, figures 9-12
1963Echinoconchus elegans Ustritsky and Chernyak p. 77 figs. Pl 6, figs 6,7

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
Lophophorata
PanbrachiopodaCarlson and Cohen 2020
phylumBrachiopodaCuvier 1805
subphylumRhynchonelliformeaWilliams et al. 1996
RankNameAuthor
classStrophomenataWilliams et al 1996
orderProductidaSarycheva and Sokolskaya 1959
suborderProductidina
superfamilyEchinoconchoidea
familyEchinoconchidae
subfamilyEchinoconchinaeStehli 1954
tribeEchinoconchiniStehli 1954
genusEchinoconchus
specieselegans(Norwood and Pratten 1855)

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.

Echinoconchus elegans Norwood and Pratten 1855
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Invalid names: Productus cestriensis Worthen 1860 [synonym], Productus flexistria Norwood and Pratten 1855 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: low Mg calcitep
Environment: marineuc
Locomotion: stationarysubo
Attached: yesp
Life habit: low-level epifaunalsubo
Diet: suspension feedersubo
Vision: blindc
Created: 2018-11-10 17:08:41
Modified: 2018-11-10 17:08:41
Source: subo = suborder, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Williams et al. 2000, Nesnidal et al. 2013, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: base of the Chadian to the top of the Sakmarian or 346.70000 to 290.10000 Ma

Collections (39 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Kinderhookian - Osagean358.9 - 343.0USA (Nevada) Productus elegans (5750)
Kinderhookian - Osagean358.9 - 343.0USA (Utah) Productus elegans (5755 5756)
Carboniferous - Chesterian358.9 - 323.2USA (Utah) Diaphragmus elegans (13363)
Mississippian358.9 - 323.2USA (Arizona) Productus elegans (124289)
Carboniferous358.9 - 298.9USA (Arizona) Productus elegans (124253 124254 124288)
Chadian346.7 - 340.0United Kingdom (England) Echinoconchus elegans (5971)
Jiusian346.7 - 335.2China (Guangdong) Echinoconchus elegans (55693 55694)
Asbian340.0 - 336.0United Kingdom (England) Echinoconchus elegans (5995)
Brigantian336.0 - 330.9United Kingdom (England) Echinoconchus elegans (73390 73392 73395 73402 73416 73431)
Chesterian335.5 - 323.2USA (Virginia) Diaphragmus elegans (7035 7088)
Pendleian330.9 - 327.0USA (Kentucky) Productus cestriensis (6964 6966 6968)
Pendleian330.9 - 327.0USA (Indiana) Productus cestriensis (6924 6927 6930 6936 6940 6941 6943 6945 6962 6963)
Serpukhovian330.9 - 323.2USA (Oklahoma) Diaphragmus elegans (5611)
Arnsbergian327.0 - 323.7USA (California) Diaphragmus elegans (226420)
Moscovian315.2 - 307.0Svalbard and Jan Mayen Echinoconchus elegans (212497)
Asselian - Sakmarian298.9 - 290.1China (Xinjiang) Productus elegans (119867)
Permian298.9 - 251.902China (Yunnan) Productus elegans (139290)
Sakmarian293.52 - 290.1Austria Productus elegans (129690)