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Parachaetetes cassiana ✝
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Rank | species (PBDB) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Plantae : Rhodophyta : Rhodophyceae : Solenoporaceae : Parachaetetes : Parachaetetes cassiana | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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Status (PBDB) | extinct | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First Recorded Appearance | 247 - 242 Ma Triassic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Recorded Appearance | 222 - 216 Ma Late/Upper Triassic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Environment | coastal,inner shelf,marine (based on Rhodophyceae) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Motility | stationary (based on Rhodophyceae) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Diet | photoautotroph (based on Rhodophyceae) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taphonomy | high Mg calcite,porous (based on Rhodophyceae) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary Reference (PBDB) | B. Senowbari-Daryan, G. D. Stanley, and T. Onoue. 2012. Upper Triassic (Carnian) reef biota from the Sambosan Accretionary Complex, Kyushu, Japan. Facies 58:671-684 |
Synonymy List
Year | Name and Author |
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1961 | Solenopora cassiana Flugel p. 340 figs. 1-4 |
2012 | Parachaetetes cassiana Senowbari-Daryan et al. p. 676 fig. 4a |
2015 | Parachaetetes cassianus Peybernes et al. |
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!