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Alveolites buchiana

Anthozoa - Favositida - Alveolitidae

Taxonomy
Alveolites buchiana was named by King (1850). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Humbleton Hill quarry, shell-limestone, Durham, which is in a Wuchiapingian carbonate grainstone in the Ford Formation of the United Kingdom.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1850Alveolites buchiana King p. 30 figs. Pl 3, figs 10-12
1854Alveolites buchiana von Schauroth p. 541 figs. Pl 20, fig 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
subclassTabulataMilne-Edwards and Haime 1850
orderFavositidaWedekind 1937
RankNameAuthor
suborderAlveolitinaSokolov 1950
familyAlveolitidaeDuncan 1872
subfamilyAlveolitinaeDuncan 1872
genusAlveolitesLamarck 1801
speciesbuchiana

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.

Alveolites buchiana King 1850
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Diagnosis
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