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Cardiotaxis

Echinoidea - Holasteroida - Holasteridae

Taxonomy
Cardiotaxis is a genus. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Holasteridae by Wagner and Durham (1966); and to Holasteroida by Sepkoski (2002).

Species lacking formal opinion data
C. cretacea

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1966Cardiotaxis Wagner and Durham p. U528
2002Cardiotaxis Sepkoski

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
—Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
—Echinozoa()
classEchinoidea()
RankNameAuthor
subclassEuechinoideaBronn 1860
superorderAcroechinoidea()
—Carinacea
—Irregularia()
—Atelostomata
orderHolasteroida
suborderMeridosternata
familyHolasteridae
genusCardiotaxis

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 calciteo
Ontogeny: accretion, addition of partsp
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: semi-infaunalo
Diet: detritivoreo
Vision: limitedc
Dispersal: watero
Dispersal 2: planktonico
Created: 2004-02-29 10:02:19
Modified: 2009-12-13 03:44:56
Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum
References: Aberhan 1992, Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Cenomanian to the top of the Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 99.60000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (10 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5France C. cretacea (85020)
Early/Lower Turonian93.5 - 89.3United Kingdom C. cretacea (59713)
Early/Lower Campanian83.5 - 70.6Germany (Niedersachsen) C. heberti (31992)
Early/Lower Campanian - Middle Campanian83.5 - 70.6Germany C. heberti (64187)
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Germany C. cordiformis (64215)
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Belgium (Liege) C. heberti (32147 32150)
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Germany (Niedersachsen) C. heberti (31993)
Maastrichtian72.1 - 66.0Kazakhstan C. heberti (48024)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Germany (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) C. heberti (32022)