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Dactylites micropora

Demospongiae - Anthracosyconidae

Taxonomy
Dactylites micropora was named by Finks (1960). Its type specimen is PU 78881 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is PU80c, Black John Canyon, Sierra Diablo, which is in a Kungurian slope limestone in the Bone Spring Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Dactylites.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Entered
by M. Clapham on 2008-11-21

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1960Dactylites micropora Finks p. 84 figs. Pl 19, figs 8-10; pl 24, figs 1-5; text-figs 56-59

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumPoriferaGrant 1836
classDemospongiae(Sollas 1875)
subclassLithistida(Schmidt 1870)
RankNameAuthor
suborderOrchocladinaRauff 1895
familyAnthracosyconidae
genusDactylites
speciesmicropora

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Dactylites micropora Finks 1960
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: silicao
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: stationaryo
Attached: yeso
Life habit: epifaunalo
Diet: suspension feedero
Vision: blindc
Created: 2006-05-26 06:29:24
Modified: 2009-05-08 20:27:50
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Whittington et al. 1997, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Kungurian or 283.30000 to 274.40000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Kungurian283.3 - 274.4USA (Texas) Dactylites micropora (type locality: 108369)