†Costigerites Deflandre-Rigaud 1962 (sea cucumber)
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Holothuroidea - Apodida - Calcancoridae
Full reference: M. Deflandre-Rigaud. 1962. Contribution à la connaissance des sclérites d'holothurides fossiles. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Série C 11:1-123
Parent taxon: Calcancoridae according to K. S. Soodan 1991
See also Deflandre-Rigaud 1962, Frizzell and Exline 1966 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxon: Calcancoroidea
Subtaxa: Costigerites indicus Costigerites piveteaui
Type: Costigerites piveteaui
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at Vaches Noires Cliff, stratigraphic bed unknown (Jurassic of France)
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