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Scotiaecystis

Stylophora - Cornuta - Cothurnocystidae

Taxonomy
Scotiaecystis is a genus. It is not extant. It is the type genus of Scotiaecystidae.

It was assigned to Scotiaecystinae by Lefebvre and Vizcaino (1999); and to Cornuta by Sepkoski (2002).

Species
Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1999Scotiaecystis Lefebvre and Vizcaino p. 450
2002Scotiaecystis Sepkoski

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
RankNameAuthor
classStylophoraGill and Caster 1960
orderCornutaJaekel 1901
suborderCothurnocystidaBather 1913
familyCothurnocystidaeBather 1913
subfamilyScotiaecystinae(Caster and Ubaghs 1967)
genusScotiaecystis

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.

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Scotiaecystis guilloui Lefebvre and Vizcaino 1999
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: high Mg calcitep
Ontogeny: accretion, addition of partsp
Environment: marinep
Locomotion: facultatively mobileo
Life habit: epifaunalo
Diet: suspension feedero
Vision: blindc
Dispersal: waterp
Dispersal 2: planktonicp
Created: 2004-02-29 12:03:33
Modified: 2004-02-29 14:05:29
Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Aberhan 1992, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Trempealeauan to the top of the Floian or 490.20000 to 471.30000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Trempealeauan490.2 - 486.85USA (Nevada) S. sp. (9517)
Floian477.1 - 471.3France (Montagne Noire) S. griffei (20827)