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Archaeofungia ✝
Source Data |
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Rank | genus (PBDB) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Porifera : Regulares : Ajacicyathida : Archaeofungia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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Status (PBDB) | extinct | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First Recorded Appearance | 520 - 516 Ma Cambrian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Recorded Appearance | 516 - 513 Ma Cambrian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Environment | marine (based on Regulares) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Motility | stationary, attached (based on Regulares) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vision | blind (based on Regulares) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Diet | suspension feeder (based on Regulares) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taphonomy | high Mg calcite (based on Regulares) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary Reference (PBDB) | O. G. Okuneva and L. N. Repina. 1973. Biostratigrafiya i fauna kembriya Primorya [Cambrian biostratigraphy and fauna of Primorye]. Trudy Instituta Geologii i Geofiziki, Sibirskoye Otdelenye 37:5-284 |
Fossil Distribution
Synonymy List
Year | Name and Author |
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1910 | Archaeofungia Taylor |
1934 | Metafungia Bedford |
1950 | Archaeofungia Okulitch p. 394 |
1973 | Archaeofungia Okuneva and Repina |
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!