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Bolboporites
| Description | Bolboporites is an extinct genus of conical echinoderms that lived in the Ordovician of Europe and North America. They are interpreted to have lived on the seafloor with the pointed end of the cone down in the sediment and the broad end upwards. A single brachiole extended from a hole in this top surface and bent into the current like the arms of crinoids (Rozhnov and Kushlina, 1994). It is likely an eocrinoid which diversified in the Baltic region and then migrated to North America (Rozhnov, 2009). From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolboporites, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||
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| Rank | genus | |||||||
| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Bolboporites | |||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||
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| Scientific Name | Bolboporites Pander, 1830 | |||||||
| Name Published In | Beitr. Geogn. Russ. Reich. | |||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolboporites |
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Bolboporites uncinata species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
References
| 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 |
| Beitr. Geogn. Russ. Reich. - 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!
