Dissimiloblastus Bohatý et al. 2024 (blastoid)

Blastoidea

Full reference: J. Bohatý, D. B. Macurda Jr, and J. A. Waters. 2024. A critical interval in blastoid evolution: the respiratory transition and palaeogeographic dispersion of the spiraculate blastoids in the Devonian. Papers in Palaeontology 10(4):1-68

Parent taxon: Blastoidea according to J. Bohatý et al. 2024

Sister taxa: Coronoidea, Eublastoidea, Fissiculata, Freisoblastus, Granatocrinida, Lotusoblastus, Lysocystites, Macurdablastus, Spiraculata, Zygocrinus

Subtaxa: Dissimiloblastus inequalis

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Type: Dissimiloblastus inequalis

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Numbrecht, Homel-Buschhof syncline, Tonstein member, upper Hohenhof formation (Devonian of Germany)

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