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Trochocyathus perrini

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae

Taxonomy
Trochocyathus perrini was named by Dickerson (1913). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCMP loc. 1853, Marysville Buttes, which is in a Ypresian marine horizon in the Capay Formation of California.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
T. affinis, T. gajensis, T. nummiformis, T. nummuliticus, T. rawsoni, T. durhami, T. elongatus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1913Trochocyathus perrini Dickerson p. 291 figs. Plate 14, figures 6a, 66, and 6c

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
—Hexacorallia()
orderScleractiniaBourne 1900
RankNameAuthor
suborderCaryophylliina(Vaughan and Wells 1943)
superfamilyCaryophylliicaeGray 1847
familyCaryophylliidaeGray 1847
genusTrochocyathusMilne-Edwards and Haime 1848
speciesperrini

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.

†Trochocyathus perrini Dickerson 1913
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Diagnosis
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