Holothuroidea - Dendrochirotida - Calclamnidae
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: Calclamniidae according to M. M. Al-Tamimi and W. A. Saqqa 2008
See also Deflandre-Rigaud 1962, Frizzell and Exline 1955, Frizzell and Exline 1966, Górka and Luszczewska 1969, Krainer and Mostler 1997, Mostler 1972, Mostler 1972, Mostler 1980, Mostler and Parwin 1973, Said and Barakat 1958, Sepkoski 2002, Soodan and Whatley 1990, Speckmann 1968 and Zawidzka 1971
Sister taxa: Calclamnella, Calclamninae, Calclamnoidea, Curvatella, Elgerius, Eocaudiniinae, Fissobractites, Gutschickia, Hamptonina, Harrisina, Hodsonina, Jolfacaudina, Mortensenites, Pachopsites, Paracucumarites, Parvioctoidus, Petropegia, Praecaudina, Thuroholia, Yorkshirella
Subtaxa: Calclamna bekanernsis Calclamna britannica Calclamna fletcheri Calclamna intermedia Calclamna misiki Calclamna norica Calclamna nuda Calclamna prebritannica Calclamna trettoensis Calclamna triangularis Calclamna turoniansis Calclamna wrighti
Type: Calclamna germanica
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-detritivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Poland (1 collection)
• Cretaceous of Germany (1), Jordan (2)
• Jurassic of Austria (1), Egypt (2), Poland (17)
• Triassic of Austria (2), Slovakia (2), Slovenia (1)
Total: 29 collections including 30 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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