†Porosothyone picketti Jell 2010 (sea cucumber)
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Holothuroidea - Dendrochirotida - Heterothyonidae
Full reference: P. A. Jell. 2010. Late Silurian echinoderms from the Yass Basin, New South Wales - the earliest holothurian body fossil and two diploporitan cystoids (Sphaeronitidae and Holocystitidae). Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 39:27-41
Belongs to Porosothyone according to P. A. Jell 2010
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: AM F136461. Its type locality is Locality W877, which is in a Pridoli marine horizon in the Elmside Formation of Australia.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-detritivore
Distribution:
• Silurian of Australia (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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