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Calyptoria

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae

Taxonomy

Calyptoria was named by Cooper (1989) [Sepkoski's age data: J Toar Sepkoski's reference number: 877]. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Spiriferida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Spiriferininae by Williams et al. (2006) and He and Chen (2016).

Species

C. statira (syn. C. carinata, C. extensa)

Synonyms

Cingolospiriferina is a genus. It is not extant.

It was corrected as Cinglospiriferina by Sepkoski (2002); it was synonymized subjectively with Calyptoria by Williams et al. (2006).

It was assigned to Spiriferida by Sepkoski (2002).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1989	Calyptoria Cooper
2002	Calyptoria Sepkoski
2002	Cinglospiriferina Sepkoski
2006	Calyptoria Williams et al. p. 1930
2016	Calyptoria He and Chen p. 975

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
—	Lophophorata
—	Panbrachiopoda	Carlson and Cohen 2020
phylum	Brachiopoda	Cuvier 1805

Rank	Name	Author
subphylum	Rhynchonelliformea	Williams et al. 1996
class	Rhynchonellata	Williams et al. 1996
order	Spiriferinida	Ivanova 1972
suborder	Spiriferinidina	Ivanova 1972
superfamily	Spiriferinoidea	(Davidson 1884)
family	Spiriferinidae	Davidson 1884
subfamily	Spiriferininae	Davidson 1884
genus	Calyptoria

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.

G. †Calyptoria Cooper 1989

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†Calyptoria statira Gemmellaro 1874

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Invalid names: Calyptoria carinata Cooper 1989 [synonym], Calyptoria extensa Cooper 1989 [synonym]

Invalid names: Cingolospiriferina [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
shell height	9	16.7	15.2	18.4	16.5	0.953

Composition:

low Mg calcitep

Environment:

marineuc

Locomotion:

stationaryo

Attached:

yesp

Life habit:

low-level epifaunalo

Diet:

suspension feedero

Vision:

blindc

Created:

2018-11-10 18:08:52

Modified:

2018-11-10 18:08:52

Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade

References: Nesnidal et al. 2013, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: base of the Toarcian to the top of the Tenuicostatum or 182.70000 to 182.00000 Ma

Collections (7 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Tenuicostatum	183.0 - 182.0	Saudi Arabia	C. carinata (136101) C. statira (141470)
Toarcian	182.7 - 174.1	Saudi Arabia	C. carinata (98955 98970) C. carinata, C. extensa (99076) C. extensa, Spiriferina sp. (99065) Spiriferina sp. (99074)