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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4875306	https://www.gbif.org/species/4875306
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	33112	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=33112

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Clypeasteroida : Astriclypeidae : Amphiope

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Clypeasteroida : Astriclypeidae : Amphiope

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
superorder	Acroechinoidea
-	Carinacea	Kroh and Smith 2010
-	Irregularia
-	Microstomata	Smith 1984
-	Neognathostomata	Smith 1981
order	Clypeasteroida	Agassiz 1836
suborder	Scutellina
infraorder	Scutelliformes	Haeckel 1896
family	Astriclypeidae	Stefanini 1912
genus	Amphiope	Agassiz 1840

Scientific Name

Amphiope Agassiz, 1840

Name Published In

Agassiz, Louis. 1840. Catalogus Ectyporum Echinodermatum Fossilium Musei Neocomensis. : 1-20.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Amphiope	genus	belongs to Astriclypeidae	stated without evidence	Durham, 1966
Amphiope	genus	belongs to Clypeasteroida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

33.9 - 28.4 Ma
Oligocene

Last Recorded Appearance

20.4 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Environment

marine (based on Echinodermata)

Motility

slow-moving (based on Clypeasteroida)

Vision

limited (based on Echinoidea)

Diet

detritivore (based on Clypeasteroida)

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)

L. Agassiz. 1840. Catalogus systematicus Ectyporum Echinodermatum fossilium Musei Neocomiensis, secundum ordinem zoologicum dispositus; adjectis synonymis recentioribus, nec non stratis et locis in quibus reperiuntur. Sequuntur characteres diagnostici generum novorum vel minus cognitorum. Petitpierre, Neuchâtel

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)
Amphiope agassizi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amphiope bioculata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amphiope boulei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amphiope caupianensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amphiope cherichirensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amphiope dallonii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amphiope eliptica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amphiope fuchsi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amphiope labriei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amphiope ludovici species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amphiope miocenica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amphiope nuragica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amphiope sarasini species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amphiope transversifora species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amphiope truncata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1840	Amphiope Agassiz pp. 6, 17
1966	Amphiope Durham p. U489
2002	Amphiope Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Agassiz L. , Catalogus systematicus Ectyporum Echinodermatum fossilium Musei Neocomiensis, secundum ordinem zoologicum dispositus; adjectis synonymis recentioribus, nec non stratis et locis in quibus reperiuntur. Sequuntur characteres diagnostici generum novorum vel minus cognitorum. Petitpierre, Neuchâtel, 1-20

Durham J. W. (1966) Clypeasteroids, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology,Part U Echinodermata 3. The Geological Society of America and The University of Kansas Press 2, U450-U491

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

Smith, A. B. & Kroh, A. (eds.). (2011). The Echinoid Directory. World Wide Web electronic publication. - 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

Cat. Ect. Ech., 6 - 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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