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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