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Isocrinina 
AphiaID: 246656

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Isocrinida (Order)
Authority Sieverts-Doreck, 1952
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Suborder
Parent Isocrinida
Source  basis of record: Hess H (2011) Isocrinida. In: Hess, H., Messing, C.G., Ausich, W.I. (Eds.), Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part T, Echinodermata 2 Revised, Crinoidea, vol. 3. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas, pp. 42–69. [details]

Direct child
taxa
 Family Cainocrinidae Simms, 1988
Family Isocrinidae Gislén, 1924
Family Isselicrinidae Klikushkin, 1977
Family Proisocrinidae Rasmussen, 1978
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent + fossil
Note  Diagnosis: Isocrinida with arms long, slender, branching mostly isotomous. Facets of brachials with well-developed muscle fossae. Whorls of mostly circular cirri at regular intervals along the pentaradiate column. Facets of columnals with petaloid pattern. Cryptosymplectial to synostosial articulation beneath cirrinodals as preformed rupture point (autotomy plane) between nodal and infranodal; in Proisocrinidae all columnal articulations symplectial and attachment by cementing disk. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:246656
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2007-10-10 10:48:29Z  created  Messing, Charles
2009-08-20 19:35:45Z  changed  Messing, Charles
  
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  Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Isocrinina. In: Messing, C. (2013) World List of Crinoidea. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=246656 on 2013-06-19
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