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Cladochonus nicholsoni

Anthozoa - Auloporida - Pyrgiidae

Taxonomy
Monilopora nicholsoni was named by Etheridge (1915). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mount Marmion (Maitland coll), which is in a Kungurian marine limestone in the Noonkanbah Formation of Australia.

It was recombined as Cladochonus nicholsoni by Hill (1942) and Parfrey (1988).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
C. nevadensis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1915Monilopora nicholsoni Etheridge Jr. p. 14 figs. Pl 1, figs 2-4; pl 7, fig 4
1942Cladochonus nicholsoni Hill p. 69
1988Cladochonus nicholsoni Parfrey p. 10 figs. Pl 1, fig 3; pl 2, fig 17

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
subclassTabulataMilne-Edwards and Haime 1850
orderAuloporidaSokolov 1947
RankNameAuthor
superfamilyAuloporoidea(Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851)
familyPyrgiidaeFromentel 1861
genusCladochonus
speciesnicholsoni()

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.

†Cladochonus nicholsoni Etheridge Jr. 1915
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available