†Protheelia Frizzell and Exline 1955 (sea cucumber)
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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: Theeliidae according to K. S. Soodan 1991
See also Deflandre-Rigaud 1962, Frizzell and Exline 1955, Frizzell and Exline 1966 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Jumaraina, Lawsonina, Micradites, Neomicroantyx, Schizotheelia, Stueria, Swabiaina
Subtaxa: Protheelia geinitziana
Type: Chirodota geinitziana
Ecology: shallow infaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at Galgenberg, Ranis (Permian of Germany)
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