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Merocrinacea

Crinoidea - Dendrocrinida

Taxonomy
Merocrinacea was named by Miller (1890). It is not extant.

It was assigned to Dendrocrinina by Ubaghs et al. (1978); and to Dendrocrinida by Ausich (1998).

Subtaxa

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1890Merocrinacea Miller
1978Merocrinacea Ubaghs et al. p. T627
1998Merocrinacea Ausich p. 21

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumBlastozoa
classCrinoideaMiller 1821
RankNameAuthor
subclassPentacrinoideaJaekel 1918
infraclassInadunata(Wachsmuth and Springer 1897)
Cladida(Moore and Laudon 1943)
Eucladida
superorderCyathoformes
orderDendrocrinida
superfamilyMerocrinaceaMiller 1890
superfamilyMerocrinaceaMiller 1890

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.

Superfm. †Merocrinacea Miller 1890
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Fm. †Ontariocrinidae Jaekel 1918
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G. †Ontariocrinus Jaekel 1918
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available