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Meristocrinus orbignyi

Crinoidea - Sagenocrinida - Sagenocrinitidae

Taxonomy
Taxocrinus orbignyi was named by M'Coy (1850). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is High Thorns, which is in a Leintwardine marine horizon in the Bannisdale Slates Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Meristocrinus orbignyi by Springer (1906) and Ramsbottom (1958).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
M. ovatus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1850Taxocrinus orbignyi M'Coy p. 289
1906Meristocrinus orbignyi Springer p. 519
1958Meristocrinus orbignyi Ramsbottom p. 107

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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)
superorderFlexibilia(Zittel 1895)
orderSagenocrinidaSpringer 1913
superfamilySagenocrinitoidea(Bassler 1938)
familySagenocrinitidae
genusMeristocrinusSpringer 1909
speciesorbignyi(M'Coy 1850)

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.

†Meristocrinus orbignyi M'Coy 1850
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available