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, Kalita et al. 2002, Mostler 1968, Mostler 1971, Mostler 1971, Mostler 1972, Mostler 1972, Mostler and Parwin 1973, Mostler and Rahimi-Yazd 1976, Sepkoski 2002, Soodan and Whatley 1990 and Wernlund 1977
Sister taxa: Calclamna, Calclamninae, Calclamnoidea, Curvatella, Elgerius, Eocaudiniinae, Fissobractites, Gutschickia, Hamptonina, Harrisina, Hodsonina, Jolfacaudina, Mortensenites, Pachopsites, Paracucumarites, Parvioctoidus, Petropegia, Praecaudina, Thuroholia, Yorkshirella
Subtaxa: Calclamnella clavata Calclamnella consona Calclamnella elliptica Calclamnella elongata Calclamnella foliosa Calclamnella fragosa Calclamnella fusiformis Calclamnella irregularis Calclamnella oweni Calclamnella permotriassica Calclamnella ramosa Calclamnella robusta Calclamnella transversa Calclamnella triperforata Calclamnella venusta
Type: Priscopedatus irregularis
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-detritivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Poland (1 collection)
• Oligocene of Germany (2), Poland (1)
• Eocene of France (1)
• Cretaceous of Germany (1)
• Jurassic of France (1), India (2), Poland (1)
• Triassic of Austria (4), China (1), Germany (1), Slovenia (1)
• Permian of Iran (1), United States (1: Texas)
• Carboniferous of Afghanistan (1)
Total: 20 collections including 34 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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