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Gloriosocyathus

Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Gloriosocyathidae

Taxonomy
Gloriosocyathus is a genus. It is not extant. It is the type genus of Gloriosocyathidae.

It was assigned to Ajacicyathida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Gloriosocyathidae by Debrenne et al. (2015).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2002Gloriosocyathus Sepkoski
2015Gloriosocyathus Debrenne et al. p. 980

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumPoriferaGrant 1836
classArchaeocyatha(Vologdin 1937)
orderAjacicyathida
RankNameAuthor
suborderAjacicyathina
superfamilyEthmophylloideaOkulitch 1937
familyGloriosocyathidaeRozanov 1969
genusGloriosocyathus

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