2014 in echinoderm paleontology

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This list of fossil echinoderms described in 2014 is a list of new taxa of echinderms of every kind that have been described during the year 2014. The list only includes taxa at the level of genus or species.

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Absurdaster[1]

Gen. et 2 sp. et comb. nov

Valid

Kroh, Lukeneder & Gallemí

Early Cretaceous (Berriasian to Barremian)

Bersek Marl Formation
Puez Formation

 Hungary
 Italy
  Switzerland

A collyritid atelostomate. Genus contains two new species: Absurdaster puezensis and Absurdaster hungaricus, as well as "Collyrites" meriani Ooster (1865).

Acanthospondylus[2]

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Harper

Carboniferous (late Pennsylvanian)

Conemaugh Group

 United States

An eospondylid oegophiurid brittle star. The type species is Acanthospondylus pennsylvanicus.

Aesiocrinus profundus[3]

Sp. nov

Valid[4]

Villanueva-Olea & Sour-Tovar

Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian)

Ixtaltepec Formation

 Mexico

A poteriocrinidan cladid crinoid, a species of Aesiocrinus.

Andymetra donovani[5]

Sp. nov

Valid

Hess

Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)

 France

A comatulid crinoid, a species of Andymetra.

Apiocrinites feldmani[6]

Sp. nov

Valid

Wilson, Reinthal & Ausich

Middle Jurassic (late Callovian)

Matmor Formation

 Israel

A crinoid, a species of Apiocrinites.

Balanocrinus brachiospina[5]

Sp. nov

Valid

Hess

Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)

 France

An isocrinid crinoid, a species of Balanocrinus.

Bathysalenia skylari[7]

Sp. nov

Valid

Jagt, Jackson & van der Ham

Late Cretaceous (late Turonian)

 United States

A salenioid, a species of Bathysalenia.

Bohnerticrinus[8]

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Bohatý, Hein & Webster

Devonian (late Eifelian)

Freilingen Formation

 Germany

A monobathrid camerate crinoid. The type species is Bohnerticrinus nilsjungi.

Botryocrinus meloi[9]

Sp. nov

Valid

Scheffler, Fernandes & da Fonseca

Devonian

Ererê Formation

 Brazil

A crinoid, a species of Botryocrinus.

Caenopedina aleksandrabitnerae[10]

Sp. nov

Valid

Kroh

Oligocene

Polonez Cove Formation

Antarctica

A pedinid sea urchin, a species of Caenopedina.

Cambroblastus guolensis[11]

Sp. nov

Valid

Zhu, Zamora & Lefebvre

Late Cambrian (Furongian)

Sandu Formation

 China

An edrioasteroid, a species of Cambroblastus.

Cruxopadia[12]

Gen. et 2 sp. nov

Valid

Reich in Reich & Ansorge

Late Jurassic (early Oxfordian) to Late Cretaceous (late Santonian)

 France
 Spain

A sea cucumber, probably a stem-molpadiid. The type species is Cruxopadia mesozoica from the early Oxfordian of Normandy, France; genus also contains Cruxopadia reitneri from the late Santonian of Catalonia.

Ekteinocrinus mixteca[3]

Sp. nov

Valid[4]

Villanueva-Olea & Sour-Tovar

Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian)

Ixtaltepec Formation

 Mexico

A dendrocrinidan cladid crinoid, a species of Ekteinocrinus.

Eoleptosynapta[12]

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Reich in Reich & Ansorge

Late Cretaceous (late Santonian)

 Spain

A probably a stem-leptosynaptine synaptid sea cucumber. The type species is Eoleptosynapta jaumei.

Eorynkatorpa[12]

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Reich in Reich & Ansorge

Late Cretaceous (late Santonian)

 Spain

A rynkatorpine synaptid sea cucumber. The type species is Eorynkatorpa catalonica.

Hexawacrinus[13]

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Frey et al.

Early Devonian (Pragian)

 Morocco

A hexacrinitid monobathrid crinoid. The type species is Hexawacrinus claudiakurtae.

Hydriocrinus amplus[3]

Sp. nov

Valid[4]

Villanueva-Olea & Sour-Tovar

Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian)

Ixtaltepec Formation

 Mexico

A poteriocrinidan cladid crinoid, a species of Hydriocrinus.

Hylodecrinus cymrus[14]

Sp. nov

Valid

Howells & Kammer

Carboniferous (Mississippian)

 United Kingdom

A cladid crinoid, a species of Hylodecrinus.

Infulaster navicularis[15]

Sp. nov

Valid[16]

Dieni & Kroh

Late Cretaceous (Coniacian)

 Italy

A cardiasterid heart urchin, a species of Infulaster.

Jingxieocrinus[17]

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Chen & Han

Cambrian (Furongian)

Guole Formation

 China

An eocrinoid. The type species is Jingxieocrinus guoleensis.

Leptosalenia barredai[18]

Sp. nov

Valid

Forner

Early Cretaceous (Albian)

 Spain

A sea urchin belonging to the order Salenioida and the family Saleniidae.

Linguaserra franzenae[19]

Sp. nov

Valid

Reich & Kutscher

Early Silurian

 Sweden

A linguaserrid ophiocistioid, a species of Linguaserra.

Micropedina simplex[20]

Sp. nov

Valid

Abdelhamid

Late Cretaceous (late Cenomanian)

Galala Formation

 Egypt

A member of Pedinoida, a species of Micropedina.

Omanaster[21]

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Blake, Angiolini & Tintori

Early Permian (Sakmarian)

Saiwan Formation

 Oman

A starfish. The type species is Omanaster imbricatus.

Ophiocamax ventosa[22]

Sp. nov

Valid

Jagt et al.

Middle Miocene

Grand Bay Formation

 Grenada (Carriacou Island)

A brittle star, a species of Ophiocamax.

Ophiodoris holterhoffi[23]

Sp. nov

Valid

Thuy et al.

Early Cretaceous (late Aptian)

Glen Rose Formation

 United States

An ophionereidid brittle star, a species of Ophiodoris.

Ophioleuce sanmigueli[23]

Sp. nov

Valid

Thuy et al.

Early Cretaceous (Aptian)

Caranceja Formation

 Spain

An ophioleucine ophiurid brittle star, a species of Ophioleuce.

Ophiozonella eloy[23]

Sp. nov

Valid

Thuy et al.

Early Cretaceous (Aptian)

Caranceja Formation

 Spain

An ophiolepidid brittle star, a species of Ophiozonella.

Ophiozonella thomasi[23]

Sp. nov

Valid

Thuy et al.

Early Cretaceous (late Aptian)

Glen Rose Formation

 United States

An ophiolepidid brittle star, a species of Ophiozonella.

Palaeocomaster benthuyi[24]

Sp. nov

Valid

Hess

Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian)

 France

A comatulid crinoid, a species of Palaeocomaster.

Palaeocomaster musculosus[5]

Sp. nov

Valid

Hess

Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)

 France

A comatulid crinoid, a species of Palaeocomaster.

Palaeocomaster paucicirrus[24]

Sp. nov

Valid

Hess

Early or Middle Jurassic (Toarcian or Aalenian)

 Germany

A comatulid crinoid, a species of Palaeocomaster.

Paracomatula morator[5]

Sp. nov

Valid

Hess

Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)

 France

A paracomatulid crinoid, a species of Paracomatula.

Paragonaster(?) haldixoni[22]

Sp. nov

Valid

Jagt et al.

Middle Miocene

Grand Bay Formation

 Grenada (Carriacou Island)

A starfish, possibly a species of Paragonaster.

Persiadiskos[25]

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Guensburg & Rozhnov

Cambrian

Mila Formation

 Iran

An agelacrinitid isorophid edrioasteroid. The type species is Persiadiskos zhuravlevi.

Rhabdobrissus tarnopolensis[26]

Sp. nov

Valid

Radwański, Górka & Wysocka

Miocene (late Badenian)

Ternopil Beds

 Ukraine

A brissid spatangoid, a species of Rhabdobrissus.

Sierradiadema[27]

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Mooi & Hilton

Middle Jurassic (Callovian)

Mariposa Formation

 United States

A diadematacean sea urchin. The type species is Sierradiadema kristini.

Stipecrinus[3]

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid[4]

Villanueva-Olea & Sour-Tovar

Carboniferous (Mississippian)

Ixtaltepec Formation

 Mexico

A poteriocrinidan cladid crinoid. The type species is Stipecrinus splendidus.

Storthingocrinus coronatus[8]

Sp. nov

Valid

Bohatý, Hein & Webster

Devonian (middle Eifelian to early Givetian)

Junkerberg Formation
Loogh Formation

 Germany

A disparid crinoid, a species of Storthingocrinus.

Storthingocrinus ebbighauseni[8]

Sp. nov

Valid

Bohatý, Hein & Webster

Devonian (Eifelian)

Ahrdorf Formation
Junkerberg Formation

 Germany

A disparid crinoid, a species of Storthingocrinus.

Storthingocrinus lobatus[8]

Sp. nov

Valid

Bohatý, Hein & Webster

Devonian (earliest Givetian)

Ahbach Formation

 Germany

A disparid crinoid, a species of Storthingocrinus.

Tethyaster antares[28]

Sp. nov

Valid

Fernández et al.

Early Cretaceous (early Valanginian)

Mulichinco Formation

 Argentina

An astropectinid, a species of Tethyaster.

Tetracrinus galei[5]

Sp. nov

Valid

Hess

Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)

 France

A cyrtocrinid crinoid, a species of Tetracrinus.

Tiaracrinus jeanlemenni[29]

Sp. nov

Valid

Klug et al.

Devonian (late Emsian)

 Morocco

A zophocrinid disparid crinoid, a species of Tiaracrinus.

References

  1. Andreas Kroh; Alexander Lukeneder; Jaume Gallemí (2014). "Absurdaster, a new genus of basal atelostomate from the Early Cretaceous of Europe and its phylogenetic position". Cretaceous Research. 48: 235–249. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2013.11.013.
  2. John A. Harper (2014). "Acanthospondylus pennsylvanicus, A new Genus and Species of Pennsylvanian Eospondylid Ophiuroid (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from Western Pennsylvania". Annals of Carnegie Museum. 82 (3): 247–255. doi:10.2992/007.082.0305.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Rafael Villanueva-Olea; Francisco Sour-Tovar (2014). "A new genus and four new species of cladid crinoids from the Carboniferous of Oaxaca State, Mexico". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 13 (7): 527–542. doi:10.1080/14772019.2014.913719.
  4. 1 2 3 4 http://zoobank.org/References/347E74B9-82EB-49B8-BA16-61A65835CA5E
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Hans Hess (2014). "Balanocrinus and other crinoids from Late Jurassic mudstones of France and Switzerland". Swiss Journal of Palaeontology. 133 (1): 47–75. doi:10.1007/s13358-013-0059-x.
  6. Mark A. Wilson; Elizabeth A. Reinthal; William I. Ausich (2014). "Parasitism of a new apiocrinitid crinoid species from the Middle Jurassic (Callovian) of southern Israel". Journal of Paleontology. 88 (6): 1212–1221. doi:10.1666/14-009.
  7. John W.M. Jagt; John Jackson & Raymond W.J.M. van der Ham (2014). "Bathysalenia skylari, a new late Turonian (Late Cretaceous) saleniid echinoid from central Texas, USA". Cretaceous Research. 51: 70–74. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2014.05.012.
  8. 1 2 3 4 Jan Bohatý; Uwe Hein; Gary D. Webster (2014). "Articulated endoskeletons of the Devonian disparid Storthingocrinus: implications for the revision of a misunderstood crinoid genus". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 88 (1): 27–53. doi:10.1007/s12542-013-0176-2.
  9. S.M. Scheffler; A.C.S.F. Fernandes; V.M.M. da Fonseca (2014). "Crinoids columnals (Echinodermata) of the Ererê Formation (late Eifelian–early Givetian, Amazon Basin), State of Pará, Brazil". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 49: 63–72. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2013.11.001.
  10. Andreas Kroh (2014). "Echinoids from the Chlamys Ledge Member (Polonez Cove Formation, Oligocene) of King George Island, West Antarctica". Polish Polar Research. 35 (3): 455–467. doi:10.2478/popore-2014-0024.
  11. Xuejian Zhu; Samuel Zamora; Bertrand Lefebvre (2014). "Morphology and palaeoecology of a new edrioblastoid (Edrioasteroidea) from the Furongian of China". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 59 (4): 921–926. doi:10.4202/app.2012.0116.
  12. 1 2 3 Mike Reich; Jörg Ansorge (2014). "Santonian sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) from Sierra del Montsec, Spain". In Frank Wiese; Mike Reich; Gernot Arp. "Spongy, slimy, cosy & more". Commemorative volume in celebration of the 60th birthday of Joachim Reitner. Göttingen Contributions to Geosciences 77. Universitätsverlag Göttingen. pp. 147–160. doi:10.3249/webdoc-3925. ISBN 978-3-86395-165-8.
  13. Linda Frey; Carole Naglik; Richard Hofmann; Mena Schemm-Gregory; Jiří Frýda; Björn Kröger; Paul D. Taylor; Mark A. Wilson; Christian Klug (2014). "Diversity and palaeoecology of Early Devonian invertebrate associations in the Tafilalt (Anti-Atlas, Morocco)". Bulletin of Geosciences. 89 (1): 75–112. doi:10.3140/bull.geosci.1459.
  14. Cindy Howells; Thomas Kammer (2014). "A new crinoid from the Mississippian age (Early Carboniferous) of South Pembrokeshire, Wales". Geological Journal. 49 (2): 207–212. doi:10.1002/gj.2514.
  15. Iginio Dieni; Andreas Kroh (2014). "Boreal echinoids from the Tethys Realm: Infulaster and Hagenowia from the Upper Cretaceous of eastern Sardinia (Italy)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 13 (9): 741–751. doi:10.1080/14772019.2014.952686.
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  17. Gui-ying Chen; Nai-ren Han (2014). "A new eocrinoid genus from the Upper Cambrian of Guangxi, South China". Acta Palaeontologica Sinica. 53 (3): 290–301.
  18. Enric Forner (2014). "Una nova espècie del gènere Leptosalenia Smith & Wright, 1990 (Echinoidea: Saleniidae) de l'Albià de Traiguera (Conca del Maestrat, NE de la península Ibèrica)". Treballs del Museu de Geologia de Barcelona. 20: 5–13.
  19. Mike Reich; Manfred Kutscher (2014). "A new ophiocistioid (Echinodermata) from the Silurian of Gotland, Sweden". GFF. 136 (3): 459–463. doi:10.1080/11035897.2013.861863.
  20. Marouf A.M. Abdelhamid (2014). "Revision of the echinoid genus Micropedina Cotteau, 1866 and description of a new species from the upper Cenomanian of Egypt". Cretaceous Research. 51: 95–111. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2014.05.015.
  21. Daniel B. Blake; Lucia Angiolini & Andrea Tintori (2014). "Omanaster imbricatus (Echinodermata, Asteroidea), a new genus and species from the Sakmarian (Lower Permian) Saiwan Formation of Oman, Arabian Peninsula". Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia. 120 (3).
  22. 1 2 John W. M. Jagt; Ben Thuy; Stephen K. Donovan; Sabine Stöhr; Roger W. Portell; Ron K. Pickerill; David A. T. Harper; William Lindsay; Trevor A. Jackson (2014). "A starfish bed in the Middle Miocene Grand Bay Formation of Carriacou, The Grenadines (West Indies)". Geological Magazine. 151 (3): 381–393. doi:10.1017/S0016756813000204.
  23. 1 2 3 4 Ben Thuy; Andrew S. Gale; Sabine Stöhr; Frank Wiese (2014). "Shallow-water brittle-star (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) assemblages from the Aptian (Early Cretaceous) of the North Atlantic: first insights into bathymetric distribution patterns". In Frank Wiese; Mike Reich; Gernot Arp. "Spongy, slimy, cosy & more". Commemorative volume in celebration of the 60th birthday of Joachim Reitner. Göttingen Contributions to Geosciences 77. Universitätsverlag Göttingen. pp. 163–182. doi:10.3249/webdoc-3927. ISBN 978-3-86395-165-8.
  24. 1 2 Hans Hess (2014). "Origin and radiation of the comatulids (Crinoidea) in the Jurassic". Swiss Journal of Palaeontology. 133 (1): 23–34. doi:10.1007/s13358-013-0061-3.
  25. T. E. Guensburg; S. V. Rozhnov (2014). "A unique edrioasteroid from the upper Middle Cambrian of Iran, its phylogenetic implications and paleoecology". Paleontological Journal. 48 (4): 401–406. doi:10.1134/S0031030114040078.
  26. Andrzej Radwański; Marcin Górka; Anna Wysocka (2014). "Badenian (Middle Miocene) echinoids and starfish from western Ukraine, and their biogeographic and stratigraphic significance". Acta Geologica Polonica. 64 (2): 207–247. doi:10.2478/agp-2014-0012.
  27. Rich Mooi; Richard P. Hilton (2014). "First record and phylogenetic significance of a Jurassic diadematacean sea urchin from California". Journal of Paleontology. 88 (3): 421–433. doi:10.1666/13-130.
  28. Diana Elizabeth Fernández; Damián Eduardo Pérez; Leticia Luci; Martín Alejandro Carrizo (2014). "An Early Cretaceous astropectinid (Echinodermata, Asteroidea) from Patagonia (Argentina): A new species and the oldest record of the family for the Southern Hemisphere". Andean Geology. 41 (1): 210–223. doi:10.5027/andgeoV41n1-a08.
  29. Christian Klug; Kenneth De Baets; Carole June Naglik; Johnny Waters (2014). "A new species of Tiaracrinus from the latest Emsian of Morocco and its phylogeny". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 59 (1): 135–145. doi:10.4202/app.2011.0188.
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