Protheelia Frizzell and Exline 1955 (sea cucumber)

Holothuroidea - Theeliidae

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

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Type: Chirodota geinitziana

Ecology: shallow infaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Galgenberg, Ranis (Permian of Germany)

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