Macurdablastus Broadhead 1984 (blastoid)

Blastoidea

Full reference: T. W. Broadhead. 1984. Macurdablastus, a Middle Ordovician Blastoid from the Southern Appalachians. The University of Kansas, Paleontological Contibutions (110)1-9

Parent taxon: Blastoidea according to J.E. Bauer et al. 2019

See also Broadhead 1984 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Coronoidea, Eublastoidea, Fissiculata, Granatocrinida, Lysocystites, Pentremitida, Troosticrinida, Zygocrinus

Subtaxa: Macurdablastus uniplicatus

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Type: Macurdablastus uniplicatus

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Ordovician of United States (2: Kentucky, Tennessee collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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