Drepanocrinus westphalicus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Roveacrinida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Crinozoa Classis: Crinoidea Subclassis: Articulata Ordo: †Roveacrinida

Familia: †Roveacrinidae
Subfamilia: †Roveacrininae
Genus: †Drepanocrinus
Species: †Drepanocrinus westphalicus
Subspecies: D. w. digitatus – D. w. meadsensis – D. w. westphalicus –

Name

• Drepanocrinus westphalicus (Sieverts, 1933): 56
  • Original genus: Roveacrinus
  • Geological age: Cretaceous; Turonian, lower to middle
  • Type locality: Klippenfazies of the Labiatus Pläner at Billmerich, near Dortmund, Westphalia, Germany
  • Typus: Cup figured in Sieverts, 1933, fig. 1, said to be in Laurent, not found (Gale, 2019: 452)
  • Distribution: Anglo-Paris Basin, Germany, Tunisia
  • ZooBank: D7466732-A151-4C1F-B94B-9D6FAB8AE34A

Primary references

• Sieverts-Doreck, H. 1933. Drepanocrinus Jaekel, ein synonym von Roveacrinus Douglas, und ein neuer Vertreter dieser Gattung aus der Deutschen Kreide. Zentralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, B1933: 54–59. Reference page.  [See p. 56, original description as Roveacrinus westphalicus]

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• Gale, A.S. 2019. Microcrinoids (Echinodermata, Articulata, Roveacrinida) from the Cenomanian-Santonian chalk of the Anglo-Paris Basin: taxonomy and biostratigraphy. Revue de paléobiologie, 38(2): 379–533. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3579355 Reference page.  [See p. 452, as Drepanocrinus westphalicus, generic re-assignment, discussion, types, range extension, new subspecies]
• Gale, A.S. 2020. Roveacrinidae (Crinoidea, Articulata) from the Cenomanian and Turonian of North Africa (Agidir Basin and Anti-Atlas, Morocco, and Central Tunisia): biostratigraphy and taxonomy. Acta Geologica Polonica, 70(3): 273–310. DOI: 10.24425/agp.2019.126458 Reference page.  [See p. 302, discussion, range extension]

Links

• BHL bibliography
• Drepanocrinus westphalicus – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Drepanocrinus westphalicus.
• ION