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Sucia suavis
Taxonomy
Sucia suavis was named by Blake (1973). It is not extant. Its type specimen is University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, UCMP A-4534, Holotype. Its type locality is Sucia Island, which is in a Cretaceous marine siliciclastic in Washington. It is the type species of Sucia.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1973 | Sucia suavis Blake pp. 52-53 figs. 19.1-19.16 |
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†Sucia suavis Blake 1973
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Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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D. B. Blake 1973 | Stellate species with relatively large disc, sharp interbrachial angles, and rounded, sharply tapering arms; marginals covered by polygonal granules; paxilliform aboral ossicles on disc and corresponding to about the first five marginals from the center of an interbrachial arch; a single series of aboral ossicles present in the remainder of the arm |