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Collyrites (Cardiopelta)

Echinoidea - Disasteridae

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

It was reranked as Collyrites (Cardiopelta) by Jesionek-Szymanska (1963).

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

Subtaxa
Collyrites (Cardiopelta) bicordata
Species lacking formal opinion data
Collyrites dorsalis, Collyrites elliptica, Collyrites jaccardi, Collyrites loryi, Collyrites ovulum
Entered
by J. Sepkoski on 2003-01-23

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1963Collyrites (Cardiopelta) Jesionek-Szymanska p. 375
1966Cardiopelta Wagner and Durham p. U526
2002Cardiopelta 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
subgenusCardiopelta

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 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: Kiessling 2004, Aberhan 1992

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Callovian to the top of the Late/Upper Oxfordian or 165.30000 to 154.80000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Callovian165.3 - 161.5Poland Collyrites bicordata (196450 196451)
Early/Lower Oxfordian - Middle Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8France Cardiopelta bicordata (13147)
Middle Oxfordian - Late/Upper Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8France Cardiopelta bicordata (13059)