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Farquharsonia

Echinoidea - Pedinoida

Taxonomy
Farquharsonia is a genus. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Pedinoida by Fell (1966); and to Diadematoida by Sepkoski (2002).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1966Farquharsonia Fell p. U365
2002Farquharsonia Sepkoski

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
—Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
RankNameAuthor
—Echinozoa()
classEchinoidea()
subclassEuechinoideaBronn 1860
superorderAcroechinoidea()
orderPedinoida()
genusFarquharsonia

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
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: high Mg calciteo
Ontogeny: accretion, addition of partsp
Environment: marinep
Locomotion: slow-movingo
Life habit: low-level epifaunalo
Diet: detritivoreo
Vision: limitedc
Dispersal: waterp
Dispersal 2: planktonicp
Created: 2004-02-29 10:05:28
Modified: 2009-12-13 03:46:48
Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum
References: Aberhan 1992, Kiessling 2004, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: base of the Bathonian to the top of the Callovian or 168.30000 to 163.50000 Ma

Collections (16 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bathonian168.3 - 166.1Saudi Arabia F. crenulata (48305 48340 48395 48402) F. crenulata, F. somaliensis (45467) F. somaliensis (45395 48453 48484) F. somaliensis, F. crenulata (48405)
Callovian166.1 - 163.5Saudi Arabia F. crenulata (45555) F. somaliensis (45541 45547 48560 48585) F. sp. (48604) F. sp., F. somaliensis (48564)