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Pachythecaliina
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| Rank | suborder (PBDB) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Pachythecaliina | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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| Status (PBDB) | extant | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 245 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Extant Size (PBDB) | 6 (2.4%) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 247 - 242 Ma Triassic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine (based on Scleractinia) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Motility | stationary, attached (based on Scleractinia) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vision | blind (based on Anthozoa) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Diet | microcarnivore, photosymbiotic (based on Scleractinia) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reproduction | alternating, asexual, dispersal=water,planktonic (based on Scleractinia) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taphonomy | aragonite (based on Scleractinia) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | E. Morycowa and M. Misik. 2005. Upper Jurrasic shallow-water scleractinian corals from the Pieniny Klippen Belt (Western Carpathians/Slovakia). Geologica Carpathica 56(5):415-432 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Volzeioidea superfamily | listed (PBDB) | 27 | 228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic | 190 Ma Early Jurassic | |
| Amphiastreidae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 503 | 237 Ma Middle Triassic | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Axosmiliidae ✝ family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 150 | 174 Ma Middle Jurassic | 101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Gablonzeriidae ✝ family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 56 | 242 Ma Middle Triassic | 209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic | |
| Volzeiidae ✝ family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 66 | 247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic | 190 Ma Early Jurassic | |
| Zardinophyllidae ✝ family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 69 | 247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic | 48.6 Ma Eocene | |
| Pachycoeniidae subfamily | listed (PBDB) | 1 | 190 Ma Early Jurassic | 190 Ma Early Jurassic | |
| Atelophyllia ✝ genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 2 | 172 Ma Middle Jurassic | 170 Ma Middle Jurassic |
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1976 | Pachythecaliina Eliasova |
| 1998 | Pachythecalina Roniewicz and Michalík p. 395 |
| 2005 | Pachythecaliina Morycowa and Misik |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
