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Salenia hondoensis

Echinoidea - Salenioida - Saleniidae

Taxonomy
Salenia hondoensis was named by Cooke (1953). Its type specimen is USNM 108366 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS 12902, King's Waterhole, which is in a Campanian carbonate limestone in the Anacacho Limestone Formation of Texas.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
S. coniae, S. geometrica, S. prestensis, S. pretensis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1953Salenia hondoensis Cooke p. 6 figs. Pl 1, figs 3,4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
—Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
—Echinozoa()
classEchinoidea()
RankNameAuthor
subclassEuechinoideaBronn 1860
superorderAcroechinoidea()
—Carinacea
—Calycina(Gregory 1900)
orderSalenioida()
familySaleniidae()
genusSalenia
specieshondoensis

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.

†Salenia hondoensis Cooke 1953
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available