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Michelinia ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3250564	https://www.gbif.org/species/3250564
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	4944	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=4944

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Micheliniidae : Michelinia

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Favositida : Micheliniidae : Michelinia

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
phylum	Cnidaria	Hatschek 1888
class	Anthozoa	Ehrenberg 1834
subclass	Tabulata	Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850
order	Favositida	Wedekind 1937
suborder	Favositina	Wedekind 1937
superfamily	Favositicae	Dana 1846
family	Micheliniidae	Waagen and Wentzel 1886
genus	Michelinia	de Koninck 1841

Scientific Name

Michelinia de Koninck, 1841

Name Published In

Descr. Anim. Foss., (1

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Michelinia	genus	belongs to Micheliniinae	stated without evidence	Murray, 1985
Michelinia	genus	belongs to Micheliniidae	stated without evidence	Webb, 1990
Michelinia	genus	belongs to Tabulata	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

450 - 427 Ma
Paleozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

254 - 252 Ma
Permian

Motility

stationary, attached (based on Tabulata)

Vision

blind (based on Anthozoa)

Diet

suspension feeder, photosymbiotic (based on Tabulata)

Taphonomy

low Mg calcite (based on Tabulata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Michelinia abichi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Michelinia abnormis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Michelinia compressa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Michelinia convexa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Michelinia cylindrica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Michelinia escobari ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	299 Ma Carboniferous	296 Ma Permian
Michelinia eugeneae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Michelinia favositoides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Michelinia grandispinosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Michelinia indica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	279 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Michelinia latebrosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Michelinia leptosphragma species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Michelinia macerimuris ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	339 Ma Carboniferous	339 Ma Carboniferous
Michelinia medifixa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Michelinia meekana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	345 Ma Carboniferous	318 Ma Carboniferous
Michelinia microstoma species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Michelinia miranda ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	269 Ma Permian	269 Ma Permian
Michelinia multisepta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Michelinia nana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	260 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Michelinia nelsoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	299 Ma Carboniferous	299 Ma Carboniferous
Michelinia parva ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Michelinia pecteniformis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Michelinia placenta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Michelinia plana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Michelinia prima species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Michelinia referta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Michelinia scopulosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Michelinia siyangensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Michelinia spissata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Michelinia stylopora ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	388 Ma Middle Devonian	388 Ma Middle Devonian
Michelinia subramosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Michelinia tchihatcheffi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Michelinia tenuicula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Michelinia vaga ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Michelinia vermispinosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Michelinia vesiculosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	269 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Michelinia wopfneri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1841	Michelinia de Koninck
1985	Michelinia Murray p. 34
1990	Michelinia Webb p. 664
2002	Michelinia Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Murray J. W. (1985) Atlas of invertebrate macrofossils, The Palaeontological Association (Longman), 1-241

Webb G. E. (1990) A New Tabulate Coral Species from the Pitkin Formation (Chesterian) of North-Central Arkansas, Journal of Paleontology 64 4, 664-666

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

NZ cross ref or inferred from publ. title - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Descr. Anim. Foss., (1 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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