Family Synaptidae Burmeister 1837 (sea cucumber)

Holothuroidea - Apodida - Synaptidae

Full reference: H. Burmeister. 1837. Handbuch der Naturgeschichte, Zweiter Band, Dritte Abtheilung, Zoologie, T. C. Friedrich, Berlin 1-858

Parent taxon: Apodida according to A. M. Kerr and J. Kim 2001

See also Clark and Twitchell 1915, Frizzell and Exline 1966, Gilliland 1992, Gilliland 1993, Pawson 1966 and Rowe and Gates 1995

Sister taxa: Achistridae, Calcancoridae, Chiridotidae, Holothuriopsis, Myriotrochidae, Myriotrochus, Porachistrum, Synaptitidae

Subtaxa: Calcancora Chiridota Prosynapta Pseudocaudina Rigaudites Synapta

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Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of India (1 collection)

• Eocene of France (2)

• Cretaceous of Germany (1), Jordan (1), Poland (1)

• Triassic of Italy (1), Poland (1)

• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 9 collections including 15 occurrences

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