Ophiocistioidea - Rotasacciidae
Alternative combination: Microantyx botoni
Full reference: R. C. Gutschick. 1959. Lower Mississippian holothurian sclerites from the Rockford Limestone of northern Indiana. Journal of Paleontology 33:130-137
Belongs to Protocaudina according to A. Ogawa et al. 2019
See also Deflandre-Rigaud 1962, Gutschick 1959, Gutschick et al. 1967, Mostler 1971, Mostler and Rahimi-Yazd 1976 and Wernlund 1977
Sister taxa: Protocaudina dorsetensis, Protocaudina dulcis, Protocaudina herrigi, Protocaudina mortenseni, Protocaudina paucispinosa
Type specimen: Holotype U.S.N.M. 137039, paratype U.S.N.M. 137040. Its type locality is Meadel Ditch Quarry, which is in a Kinderhookian offshore mudstone/limestone in the Rockford Limestone Formation of Indiana.
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Permian of Iran (1 collection), United States (1: Texas)
• Carboniferous of Afghanistan (1), Japan (1), United States (6: Indiana, Missouri, Montana)
Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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