Cucumarites dubius Deflandre-Rigaud 1946 (sea cucumber)

Holothuroidea - Stichopitidae

Alternative combinations: Calclamnoidea dubia, Priscopedatus dubius

Full reference: M. Deflandre-Rigaud. 1946. Sur les divers types de sclérites d'holothuries oxfordiens des marnes de Villers-sur-Mer. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences 223:513-515

Belongs to Cucumarites according to M. Deflandre-Rigaud 1962

See also Deflandre-Rigaud 1946 and Frizzell and Exline 1955

Sister taxa: Cucumarites ambiguus, Cucumarites angulatus, Cucumarites compactus, Cucumarites dentatus, Cucumarites dentigerus, Cucumarites diplococcus, Cucumarites diversimeatus, Cucumarites feifeli, Cucumarites heteroporus, Cucumarites holsaticus, Cucumarites inflatus, Cucumarites microporus, Cucumarites mortenseni, Cucumarites nigrivaccae, Cucumarites pauciperforatus, Cucumarites pauciperforatus, Cucumarites proteus, Cucumarites punctiferus, Cucumarites radiatus, Cucumarites robustus, Cucumarites scaber, Cucumarites schlumbergeri, Cucumarites soodanii, Cucumarites sparsispinosus, Cucumarites speciosus, Cucumarites spitiensis, Cucumarites squamma, Cucumarites undatus

Ecology: shallow infaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Vaches Noires Cliff, stratigraphic bed unknown (Jurassic of France)

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