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Phyllobrissus freitasii

Echinoidea - Nucleolitidae

Taxonomy

Echinobrissus freitasii was named by White (1887). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Lastro, perto de Maroim, which is in an Albian carbonate limestone in the Riacheulo Formation of Brazil.

It was recombined as Nucleolites freitasi by Maury (1936); it was recombined as Phyllobrissus freitasii by Smith (1991).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

P. nicoleti

Synonyms

Stigmatopygus malheiroi was named by de Loriol (1888). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Dombe-Grande (couches à Acteonella anchietai), which is in a Cenomanian marine sandstone in the Coporolo Formation of Angola.

It was synonymized subjectively with Phyllobrissus freitasii by Smith (1991).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1887	Echinobrissus freitasii White p. 259 figs. pl. 28, figs. 14, 16
1888	Stigmatopygus malheiroi de Loriol p. 106 figs. Pl 7, fig 4
1936	Nucleolites freitasi Maury p. 276
1991	Phyllobrissus freitasii Smith p. 41 figs. Pl 10G,H; text-figs 32-34

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
—	Ambulacraria
phylum	Echinodermata
subphylum	Eleutherozoa
—	Echinozoa	()
class	Echinoidea	()

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Euechinoidea	Bronn 1860
superorder	Acroechinoidea	()
—	Carinacea
—	Irregularia	()
—	Microstomata
—	Neognathostomata
family	Nucleolitidae
genus	Phyllobrissus	Cotteau 1859
species	freitasii	(White 1887)

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.

†Phyllobrissus freitasii White 1887

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Invalid names: Stigmatopygus malheiroi de Loriol 1888 [synonym]

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 Late/Upper Albian to the top of the Early/Lower Cenomanian or 106.30000 to 93.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Albian	106.3 - 100.5	Brazil (Sergipe)	Echinobrissus freitasii (type locality: 87857)
Early/Lower Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	Angola	Stigmatopygus malheiroi (210856)