Hydractinia echinata
UNB-2019-0121Fossils » Eukaryote » Animalia » Cnidaria » Medusozoa » Hydrozoa
Description
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Hydrozoa
Order: Tubulariae
Genus: Hydractinia (Ulrich, 1904)
Species: Hydractinia echinata (Fleming, 1828)
Two small specimens with bulbous colonial polyps.
Specifications
| Object name | Hydractinia echinata |
|---|---|
| ID | UNB-2019-0121 |
| Legal status | Permanent collection |
| Category | Fossil |
| Classification | Domain: Eukaryote Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Cnidaria Subphylum: Medusozoa Class: Hydrozoa |
| Composition | Calcium carbonate |
| Age | Eon: Phanerozoic Era: Cenozoic Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene |
| Numeric age | 2.58 Mya |
| Origin | Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S.A. |
| Pieces | 2 |
| Partial | No |
| Measurements |
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Map of Origin
Publications
- Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan. Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda
- E. O. Ulrich. 1904. Hydrozoa. Maryland Geological Survey Miocene(Text):433-437