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Collyrites

Echinoidea - Disasteridae

Taxonomy
Collyrites is a genus. It is not extant. It is the type genus of Collyritidae.

It was assigned to Pygorhytinae by Jesionek-Szymanska (1963); to Collyritidae by Wagner and Durham (1966); and to Disasteroida by Sepkoski (2002).

Species
C. (Cardiopelta), C. chellalaensis
Species lacking formal opinion data
C. loryi

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1963Collyrites Jesionek-Szymanska p. 375
1966Collyrites Wagner and Durham p. U525
2002Collyrites Sepkoski

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
—Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
—Echinozoa()
classEchinoidea()
RankNameAuthor
subclassEuechinoideaBronn 1860
superorderAcroechinoidea()
—Carinacea
—Irregularia()
—Atelostomata
familyDisasteridae
subfamilyPygorhytinae()
genusCollyrites

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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†Collyrites chellalaensis Devries 1971
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 Bathonian to the top of the Hauterivian or 168.20000 to 125.77000 Ma

Collections (25 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Bathonian168.2 - 165.3Armenia C. sp. (196493)
Early/Lower Bathonian168.2 - 165.3Iran C. sp. (37563 37564)
Early/Lower Callovian165.3 - 161.5France C. elliptica (170301)
Late/Upper Callovian165.3 - 161.5Poland C. bicordata (196450 196451)
Early/Lower Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8India C. dorsalis (63531)
Early/Lower Oxfordian - Middle Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8France Cardiopelta bicordata (13147)
Middle Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8France C. sp. (13057)
Middle Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8Spain C. sp. (68308)
Middle Oxfordian - Late/Upper Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8France Cardiopelta bicordata (13059) C. sp. (13055)
Late/Upper Oxfordian157.9 - 154.8France C. sp. (62725 62726 62727 62728)
Late/Upper Oxfordian - Early/Lower Kimmeridgian157.9 - 152.21Spain C. sp. (68307)
Early/Lower Kimmeridgian154.8 - 152.21Algeria C. chellalaensis (196453)
Tithonian149.2 - 143.1Yemen (Wadi Hajar) C. loryi (2615)
Berriasian143.1 - 137.05Yemen (Wadi Hajar) C. loryi (2628)
Valanginian137.05 - 132.6Morocco (Western High Atlas) C. jaccardi (2062)
Valanginian137.05 - 132.6Switzerland C. jaccardi (2247)
Hauterivian132.6 - 125.77France C. ovulum, C. jaccardi (2209)
Hauterivian132.6 - 125.77Switzerland C. ovulum (2198) C. ovulum, C. jaccardi (2200)