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Mollocrinidae

Crinoidea - Dendrocrinida - Mollocrinidae

Taxonomy
Mollocrinidae was named by Wanner (1916). It is not extant. Its type is Mollocrinidae. It is the type family of Mollocrinacea.

It was reranked as the superfamily Mollocrinacea by Moore and Strimple (1973); it was reranked as the superfamily Mollocrinacea by Ubaghs et al. (1978).

It was assigned to Poteriocrinina by Moore and Strimple (1973) and Ubaghs et al. (1978); and to Mollocrinoidea by Webster and Webster (2012).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1916Mollocrinidae Wanner p. 671
1973Mollocrinacea Moore and Strimple
1978Mollocrinacea Ubaghs et al. p. T658
2012Mollocrinidae Webster and Webster

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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)
Eucladida
superorderCyathoformes
orderDendrocrinida
superfamilyMollocrinoideaWanner 1916
familyMollocrinidaeWanner 1916
familyMollocrinidaeWanner 1916

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.

Fm. †Mollocrinidae Wanner 1916
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G. †Hemimollocrinus Yakovlev 1930
G. †Mollocrinus Wanner 1916
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Mollocrinus ornatissimus Wanner 1916
Mollocrinus poculum Wanner 1916
G. †Strongylocrinus Wanner 1916
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Strongylocrinus hansoni Moore and Strimple 1973
Strongylocrinus ornatus Moore and Strimple 1973
Invalid names: Mollocrinacea Wanner 1916 [objective synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available