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Placocystella

Stylophora - Mitrata - Australocystidae

Taxonomy
Placocystella is a genus. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Australocystidae by Beaver et al. (1967); and to Mitrata by Sepkoski (2002).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1967Placocystella Beaver et al. p. S561
2002Placocystella Sepkoski

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
RankNameAuthor
classStylophoraGill and Caster 1960
orderMitrataJaekel 1918
suborderAnomalocystitidaCaster 1952
familyAustralocystidaeCaster 1954
genusPlacocystella

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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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: high Mg calcitep
Ontogeny: accretion, addition of partsp
Environment: marinep
Locomotion: passively mobileo
Life habit: epifaunalo
Diet: suspension feedero
Vision: blindc
Dispersal: waterp
Dispersal 2: planktonicp
Created: 2004-02-29 12:03:51
Modified: 2004-02-29 14:06:05
Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum
References: Aberhan 1992, Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Emsian to the top of the Eifelian or 410.62000 to 387.95000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Emsian410.62 - 393.47South Africa P. capensis (35582 35587) P. capensis, P. sp. (a), P. sp. (b), P. sp. (c) (35578)
Eifelian393.47 - 387.95South Africa P. capensis (35592 35593)