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Oolopygus

Echinoidea - Nucleolitidae

Taxonomy
Oolopygus was named as a genus. It is not extant.

It was reranked as Catopygus (Oolopygus) by Sanchez-Roig (1953).

It was assigned to Catopygus by Sanchez-Roig (1953); to Nucleolitidae by Kier (1962), Kier (1966); and to Cassiduloida by Sepkoski (2002).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1953Catopygus (Oolopygus) Sanchez-Roig p. 145
1962Oolopygus Kier p. 93
1966Oolopygus Kier p. U505
2002Oolopygus Sepkoski

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

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. †Oolopygus
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†Catopygus (Oolopygus) gonzalezi Sanchez-Roig 1953
†Oolopygus gracilis Lambert 1909
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: high Mg calcitec
Ontogeny: accretion, addition of partsp
Environment: marinep
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: epifaunalc
Diet: grazerc
Diet 2: deposit feederc
Vision: limitedc
Dispersal: waterp
Dispersal 2: planktonicp
Created: 2004-02-28 12:05:24
Modified: 2010-02-12 04:00:29
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Aberhan 1992, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Cenomanian to the top of the Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 100.50000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (20 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9France O. sp. (59810 59812)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0USA (New Jersey) Catopygus williamsi (197070)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0Belgium (Liege) O. pyriformis (32158)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0Netherlands O. pyriformis (32161 32177 32179)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0Belgium (Liege) O. pyriformis (32153 32154 32155 32156 32157 32174)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0USA (New Jersey) Catopygus williamsi (124937)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0Netherlands (Limburg) O. pyriformis (32159 32168)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian - Late/Upper Cretaceous72.2 - 66.0Belgium (Liege) O. pyriformis (32175)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian - Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0Netherlands O. pyriformis (32162)
Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0USA (New Jersey) Catopygus williamsi (78124)
Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0Spain (Santander) O. sp. (157007)