Dissimiloblastus inequalis 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

Belongs to Dissimiloblastus according to J. Bohatý et al. 2024

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: LWL P96682a and P96682b. Its type locality is Numbrecht, Homel-Buschhof syncline, Tonstein member, upper Hohenhof formation, which is in an Eifelian carbonate limestone in the Hohenhof Formation of Germany.

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Numbrecht, Homel-Buschhof syncline, Tonstein member, upper Hohenhof formation

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