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Pseudocrucella hilara

Protozoa - Spumellaria - Hagiastridae

Discussion

Description: Test with short rays and large central area. Rays medium in width, subrectangular in axial section, with three to four external beams and two to three rows of pore frames. Pore frames triangular to tetragonal on rays, more irregular in central area, with massive nodes at vertices when well-preserved. Central area subrectangular in outline. Primary spines long, massive, triradiate proximally, circular in axial section distally. Test with or without patagium.

Etymology: Hilarus-a-um (latin , adj.) Glad.

Taxonomy
Pseudocrucella hilara was named by Yeh (1987). Its type specimen is NMNS (000021) and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Suplee-Izee area, OR-589D, which is in a Toarcian marine mudstone/limestone in the Snowshoe Formation of Oregon.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1987Pseudocrucella hilara Yeh p. 28 figs. Pl. 9, figs. 3,4, 16; Pl. 24 fig. 1

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RankNameAuthor
Life
Eukaryota()
classProtozoaGoldfuss 1820
subphylumSarcodinaSchmarda 1871
classReticulareaLankester 1885
RankNameAuthor
subclassRadiolaria(Müller 1858)
orderSpumellariaEhrenberg 1875
familyHagiastridaeRiedel 1971
genusPseudocrucellaBaumgartner 1980
specieshilara

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
No diagnoses are available