Holothuroidea - Synaptellidae

Full reference: D. L. Frizzell and H. Exline. 1957. Revision of the family Synaptitidae, fossil holothurian sclerites (Echinodermata Holothuroidea). Boletin Sociedad Geologia, Peru 32:97-119

Parent taxon: Synaptellidae according to M. Deflandre-Rigaud 1962

See also Frizzell and Exline 1957 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxon: Synaptellus

Subtaxa: Spandelites arcuatus Spandelites irregularis Spandelites lehmani

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Type: Synaptites irregularis

Ecology: shallow infaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Vaches Noires Cliff, stratigraphic bed unknown (Jurassic of France)

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