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Gauthieria speciosa

Echinoidea - Phymosomatidae

Taxonomy
Cyphosoma speciosum was named by Clark (1801). Its type specimen is ANSP 1468, a test, and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Coptosoma speciosum by Clark (1803) and Clark and Twitchell (1915); it was recombined as Pseudodiadema speciosum by Clark (1907); it was recombined as Microsoma speciosum by Cooke (1941); it was recombined as Gauthieria speciosa by Cooke (1959).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1801Cyphosoma speciosum Clark p. 76
1803Coptosoma speciosum Clark p. 51
1907Pseudodiadema speciosum Clark p. 286
1915Coptosoma speciosum Clark and Twitchell p. 61
1941Microsoma speciosum Cooke p. 12
1959Gauthieria speciosa Cooke p. 23

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
—Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
—Echinozoa()
classEchinoidea()
RankNameAuthor
subclassEuechinoideaBronn 1860
superorderAcroechinoidea()
—Carinacea
—Calycina(Gregory 1900)
suborderPhymosomatoida()
familyPhymosomatidae
genusGauthieriaLambert 1891
speciesspeciosa(Clark 1801)

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.

†Gauthieria speciosa Clark 1801
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: high Mg calcitesubo
Ontogeny: accretion, addition of partsp
Environment: marinep
Locomotion: slow-movingsubo
Life habit: low-level epifaunalsubo
Diet: omnivoresubo
Vision: limitedc
Dispersal: waterp
Dispersal 2: planktonicp
Created: 2004-02-29 10:30:22
Modified: 2009-12-13 03:47:39
Source: subo = suborder, c = class, p = phylum
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004, Aberhan 1992

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Paleocene to the top of the Thanetian or 58.70000 to 56.00000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Thanetian59.2 - 56.0USA (New Jersey) Gauthieria speciosa, Coptosoma speciosum (3113)
Late/Upper Paleocene58.7 - 55.8USA (New Jersey) Gauthieria speciosa (type locality: 155898 155904)