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Rhopalocystis zagoraensis ✝
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| Rank | species (PBDB) | ||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Rhopalocystidae : Rhopalocystis : Rhopalocystis zagoraensis | ||||||||||||
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct | ||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 | ||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 485 - 478 Ma Paleozoic | ||||||||||||
| Last Recorded Appearance | 485 - 478 Ma Paleozoic | ||||||||||||
| Motility | stationary, attached (based on Rhopalocystis) | ||||||||||||
| Diet | suspension feeder (based on Rhopalocystis) | ||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | J. Chauvel. 1971. Rhopalocystis Ubaghs: un échinoderme éocrinoïde du Trémadocien de l’Anti-Atlas marocain. Mémoires du Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières 73:43-49 | ||||||||||||
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1971 | Rhopalocystis zagoraensis Chauvel p. 45 figs. pl. 1, fig. 6; pl. 2 fig. 2 |
| 1978 | Rhopalocystis lehmani Chauvel |
| 2017 | Rhopalocystis zagoraensis Allaire et al. pp. 707 - 709 figs. 4.3, 5.3–5.8, 5.12, 5.18–5.20, 14, 15 |
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!
