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Goniopygus ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4875445	https://www.gbif.org/species/4875445
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	32962	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=32962

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Arbacioida : Acropeltidae : Goniopygus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Arbacioida : Arbaciidae : Goniopygus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ambulacraria
phylum	Echinodermata	Klein 1754
subphylum	Echinozoa	von Zittel 1895
class	Echinoidea
subclass	Euechinoidea	Bronn 1860
-	Echinacea
order	Arbacioida
family	Arbaciidae
genus	Goniopygus	Agassiz 1838

Scientific Name

Goniopygus Agassiz, 1838

Name Published In

Agassiz, L. (1838). Monographies d'echinodermes vivans et fossiles.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Goniopygus	genus	belongs to Hemicidaridae	stated without evidence	Clark and Twitchell, 1915
Goniopygus	genus	belongs to Arbaciidae	stated with evidence	Nisiyama, 1966
Goniopygus	genus	belongs to Arbaciidae	stated without evidence	Fell and Pawson, 1966
Goniopygus	genus	belongs to Arbaciidae	stated with evidence	Geys, 1981
Goniopygus	genus	belongs to Arbacioida	stated with evidence	Donovan, 1993
Goniopygus	genus	belongs to Goniopygidae	stated with evidence	Smith, 1995
Goniopygus	genus	belongs to Phymosomatoida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Goniopygus	genus	belongs to Arbaciidae	stated with evidence	Berndt, 2003

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

140 - 133 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

66.0 - 61.6 Ma
Paleocene

Environment

marine (based on Echinodermata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arbaciidae)

Vision

limited (based on Echinoidea)

Diet

grazer (based on Arbaciidae)

Reproduction

dispersal=water,planktonic (based on Echinodermata)

Ontogeny

accretion,addition of parts (based on Echinodermata)

Taphonomy

high Mg calcite (based on Echinoidea)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Echinus menardi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus agha species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus ameri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus arabicus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Goniopygus atavus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Goniopygus bazerquei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus bolaensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus bronnii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus budaensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus conicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus coutini species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus cubanus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus durandi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus eravillensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Goniopygus gauthieri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus heteropygus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus impressus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus innesi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus jeanneti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus lamberti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus lemoinei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus madrugensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus major species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus menardi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		24	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Goniopygus meslei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus messaoud species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus minor ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Goniopygus peltatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus peroni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus petrocoriensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus royoi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus sanchezi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus stocktonensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus supremus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus tetraphyma species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus whitneyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniopygus zitteli ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Cyphopygus Pomel, 1883	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Arbacioida : Acropeltidae : *Cyphopygus*
Goniopagus Etheridge, 1858	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Arbacioida : Acropeltidae : *Goniopagus*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1838	Goniopygus Agassiz
1915	Goniopygus Clark and Twitchell p. 52
1966	Goniopygus Fell and Pawson p. U411
1966	Goniopygus Nisiyama p. 203
1981	Goniopygus Geys p. 262
1993	Goniopygus Donovan p. 97
1995	Goniopygus Smith p. 142
2002	Goniopygus Sepkoski, Jr.
2003	Goniopygus Berndt p. 81

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Clark W. B., Twitchell M. W. (1915) The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States, United States Geological Survey Bulletin 54, 1-341

Fell H. B., Pawson D. L. (1966) Echinacea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology,Part U Echinodermata 3. The Geological Society of America and The University of Kansas Press 2, U367-U440

Nisiyama S. (1966) The echinoid fauna from Japan and adjacent regions, Part I, Palaeontological Society of Japan Special Papers 11, 1-277

Geys J. F. (1981) Arbacioid echinoids from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of Belgium and the Netherlands, Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 55, 257-270

Donovan S. K. (1993) Jamaican Cretaceous Echinoidea, Geological Society of America Memoir 182, 93-103

Smith A. B. (1995) Late Campanian-Maastrichtian echinoids from the United Arab Emirates-Oman border region, Bulletin of the Natural History Museum (Geology Series) 51, 121-240

Berndt R. (2003) Cenomanian echinoids from Southern Jordan, N. Jb. Geol. Palaont. Mh 2003 2, 73-90

Agassiz, L. (1838). Monographies d'echinodermes vivans et fossiles. - via World Register of Marine Species

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Mon. Ech., 1 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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!

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