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Tegerocyathus

Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Tegerocyathidae

Taxonomy

Tegerocyathus is a genus. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Ajacicyathida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Tegerocyathidae by Debrenne et al. (2015).

Species

T. karakolicus, T. ultrus

Species lacking formal opinion data

T. abakanensis, T. edelsteini

Synonyms

Alexandricyathus was named by Osadchaya et al. (1979). Its type is Alexandricyathus ultrus.

It was synonymized subjectively with Tegerocyathus by Debrenne et al. (2015).

It was assigned to Ajacicyathida by Osadchaya et al. (1979).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1979	Alexandricyathus Osadchaya et al.
2002	Tegerocyathus Sepkoski
2015	Tegerocyathus Debrenne et al. p. 43

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
phylum	Porifera	Grant 1836
class	Archaeocyatha	(Vologdin 1937)
order	Ajacicyathida

Rank	Name	Author
suborder	Ajacicyathina
superfamily	Erbocyathoidea	Vologdin and Zhuravleva 1956
family	Tegerocyathidae	Krasnopeeva 1972
genus	Tegerocyathus

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. †Tegerocyathus

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†Tegerocyathus karakolicus Osadchaya et al. 1979

†Tegerocyathus ultrus Osadchaya et al. 1979

Invalid names: Alexandricyathus Osadchaya et al. 1979 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Locomotion:

stationaryp

Attached:

yesp

Life habit:

intermediate-level epifaunalp

Diet:

suspension feederp

Vision:

blindp

Created:

2009-05-09 19:07:07

Modified:

2009-10-06 09:36:25

Source: p = phylum

References: Kiessling 2004, Bambach et al. 2007

Age range: base of the Botomian to the top of the Toyonian or 516.00000 to 508.20000 Ma

Collections (17 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Botomian	516.0 - 512.1	Russian Federation (Khakasiya)	T. abakanensis (81449) T. abakanensis, T. edelsteini (81446) T. edelsteini (81445) T. sp. (81460)
Botomian	516.0 - 512.1	Russian Federation (Kemorovo)	T. sp. (56763)
Botomian - Toyonian	516.0 - 508.2	USA (Nevada)	T. edelsteini (81004 81005)
Lenian	516.0 - 508.2	Mongolia	T. sp. (45950 46156)
Lenian	516.0 - 508.2	Russian Federation (Kemorovo)	T. sp., T. edelsteini (56765)
Toyonian	512.1 - 508.2	Russian Federation (Krasnoyarskiy Kray)	Alexandricyathus edelsteini, T. karakolicus (81441) T. abakanensis (81440) T. abakanensis, Alexandricyathus edelsteini, Alexandricyathus ultrus (81435)
Toyonian	512.1 - 508.2	Russian Federation (Khakasiya)	Alexandricyathus edelsteini (81450) T. abakanensis (81461) T. abakanensis, T. karakolicus (81463) T. sp., Alexandricyathus edelsteini (81331)