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Catopygus

Echinoidea - Cassiduloida - Cassidulidae

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1883Penesticta Pomel
1915Catopygus Clark and Twitchell p. 72
1920Catopygus Kew p. 142
1938Catopygus Grant and Hertlein p. 110
1962Catopygus Kier p. 71
1966Catopygus Kier p. U503
2002Catopygus Sepkoski

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
Echinozoa()
classEchinoidea()
RankNameAuthor
subclassEuechinoideaBronn 1860
superorderAcroechinoidea()
Carinacea
Irregularia()
Microstomata
Neognathostomata
orderCassiduloida
suborderCassidulina
familyCassidulidae
genusCatopygus

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. †Catopygus
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Catopygus bargesii d'Orbigny 1856
Catopygus carinatus Goldfuss 1826
Catopygus pusillus Clark 1891
Catopygus rodriguezi Lambert and Sanchez Roig 1926
Invalid names: Penesticta Pomel 1883 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: high Mg calciteo
Ontogeny: accretion, addition of partsp
Environment: marinep
Locomotion: slow-movingo
Life habit: semi-infaunalo
Diet: detritivoreo
Vision: limitedc
Dispersal: waterp
Dispersal 2: planktonicp
Created: 2004-02-28 17:48:53
Modified: 2009-10-08 14:57:31
Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Aberhan 1992, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Aptian to the top of the Early/Lower Eocene or 125.00000 to 48.60000 Ma

Collections (47 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Aptian125.0 - 113.0United Kingdom (England) C. columbarius (1815) C. sp. (1842) C. vectensis (1769)
Early/Lower Albian112.03 - 109.0United Kingdom (England) C. columbarius (1864)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6United Kingdom (England) C. columbaris (82808) C. columbarius (82811)
Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9France (Charentes) C. carinatus (64881)
Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9France (Poitou-Charentes) C. carinatus (87797)
Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9France (Charente-Maritime) C. carinatus (64878)
Late/Upper Cretaceous100.5 - 66.0Cuba C. rodriguezi (91131)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5France C. columbarius (59802 59809 59810 59812 59813 59814 59815 59816 59817 59818 85020)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5United Kingdom (England) C. columbarius (82798) C. sp. (82898)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5France (Poitou-Charentes) C. colombarius (73862)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5United Kingdom C. columbarius (59681 59682 59688 59707 59708 59709 59710 59711)
Late/Upper Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5France C. carinatus (59799 59806 59807 59808)
Middle Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5United Kingdom C. columbarius (59712)
Coniacian89.8 - 86.3France C. arnaudi (3779)
Early/Lower Campanian83.5 - 70.6USA (New Jersey) C. pusillus (78122)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Belgium (Liege) C. fenestratus (32158)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Netherlands (Limburg) C. fenestratus (32159)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Belgium (Liege) C. fenestratus (32153 32157)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0USA (Mississippi) C. mississippiensis (4150 78123)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian - Danian70.6 - 61.6Netherlands C. fenestratus (32160)
Early/Lower Eocene55.8 - 48.6USA (California) C. cajonensis (203578)