Auloblastus Beaver 1961 (blastoid)

Blastoidea - Granatocrinida - Schizoblastidae

Full reference: H. H. Beaver. 1961. Auloblastus, a new blastoid from the Mississippian Burlington Limestone. Journal of Paleontology 35(6):1113-1116

Parent taxon: Schizoblastidae according to J.A. Waters and A.S. Horowitz 1993

See also Beaver et al. 1967 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Acentrotremites, Deltoblastus, Hydroblastus, Lophoblastus, Orbiblastus, Pinguiblastus, Schizoblastus

Subtaxa: Auloblastus clinei

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Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Auloblastus in the database

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