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Gitolampas

Echinoidea - Cassiduloida

Taxonomy
Gitolampas is a genus. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Pliolampadidae by Kier (1962), Kier (1966) and Nisiyama (1968); and to Cassiduloida by Sepkoski (2002) and Osborn et al. (2016).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1962Gitolampas Kier p. 207
1966Gitolampas Kier p. U518
1968Gitolampas Nisiyama p. 21
2002Gitolampas Sepkoski
2016Gitolampas Osborn et al. p. 44

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
Echinozoa()
classEchinoidea()
RankNameAuthor
subclassEuechinoideaBronn 1860
superorderAcroechinoidea()
Carinacea
Irregularia()
Microstomata
Neognathostomata
orderCassiduloida
genusGitolampas

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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Gitolampas sendaica Nisiyama 1968
Gitolampas tunctana Gauthier 1889
Gitolampas twitchelli Osborn et al. 2016
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: high Mg calciteo
Ontogeny: accretion, addition of partsp
Environment: marinep
Locomotion: slow-movingo
Life habit: semi-infaunalo
Diet: detritivoreo
Vision: limitedc
Dispersal: waterp
Dispersal 2: planktonicp
Created: 2004-02-28 17:48:53
Modified: 2009-10-08 14:57:31
Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004, Aberhan 1992

Age range: base of the Maastrichtian to the top of the Lutetian or 72.10000 to 41.30000 Ma

Collections (11 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Maastrichtian72.1 - 66.0Iraq G. sp. (3884)
Danian66.0 - 61.6USA (Alabama) G. georgiensis (2813 2837 2838 2840 2842 2856)
Danian66.0 - 61.6USA (Georgia) G. georgiensis (2832)
Paleocene66.0 - 56.0USA (Alabama) G. sp. (2923)
Thanetian59.2 - 56.0Spain (Santander) G. subrotundus (157012)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3USA (South Carolina) G. twitchelli (52348)