Holothuroidea - Dendrochirotida - Calclamnidae
Alternative spelling: Calclamniidae
Full reference: D. L. Frizzell and H. Exline. 1955. Monograph of fossil holothurian sclerites. Bulletin of the Missouri University School of Metallurgy and Mines, Technical series 89:1-204
Parent taxon: Dendrochirotida according to J. Bohaty and H.-G. Herbig 2010
See also Al-Tamimi and Saqqa 2008, Boczarowski 2001, Deflandre-Rigaud 1962, Frizzell and Exline 1955, Frizzell and Exline 1966, Gutschick 1959, Kozur and Mostler 1989, Krainer and Mostler 1997, Langenheim and Epis 1957, Mostler 1972, Mostler 1972, Mostler and Rahimi-Yazd 1976, Pawson 1966, Reso and Wegner 1964 and Wernlund 1977
Sister taxa: Andenothyone, Binoculites, Cucumariidae, Heterothyonidae, Phyllophoridae, Placothuriidae, Priscoligula, Priscopedatoides, Pseudostaurocumites, Psolidae, Schlumbergeritidae, Sclerodactylidae
Subtaxa: Calclamna Calclamnella Calclamninae Calclamnoidea Curvatella Elgerius Eocaudiniinae Fissobractites Gutschickia Hamptonina Harrisina Hodsonina Jolfacaudina Mortensenites Pachopsites Paracucumarites Parvioctoidus Petropegia Praecaudina Thuroholia Yorkshirella
Type: Calclamna
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-detritivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Poland (1 collection)
• Oligocene of Germany (3), Poland (1)
• Eocene of France (1)
• Cretaceous of Germany (1), Jordan (2)
• Jurassic of Austria (2), Egypt (4), France (4), India (4), Poland (21)
• Triassic of Australia (1), Austria (9), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (1), France (1), Germany (2), Hungary (3), Iran (1), Italy (9), Poland (1), Slovakia (6), Slovenia (2), Turkey (1)
• Permian of Germany (1), Iran (1), Italy (1), United States (1: Texas)
• Carboniferous of Afghanistan (1), United States (17: Arizona, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico)
• Devonian of Germany (2), Poland (17), United States (1: Iowa)
• Ordovician of United States (4: Minnesota, Oklahoma, illinois)
Total: 128 collections including 229 occurrences