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Pygurostoma ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4875755	https://www.gbif.org/species/4875755
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	33250	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=33250

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Clypeasteroida : Faujasiidae : Pygurostoma

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Cassiduloida : Pygurostoma

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	Cassiduloida	Agassiz and Desor 1847
genus	Pygurostoma	Cotteau & Gauthier 1895

Scientific Name

Pygurostoma Cotteau & Gauthier, 1895

Name Published In

in Morgan, Miss. Perse, 3 (2), no. 1

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Pygurostoma	genus	belongs to Faujasiidae	stated without evidence	Kier, 1962
Pygurostoma	genus	belongs to Cassiduloida	stated with evidence	Smith, 1995
Pygurostoma	genus	belongs to Cassiduloida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

83.6 - 72.1 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

72.1 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

marine (based on Echinodermata)

Motility

slow-moving (based on Cassiduloida)

Vision

limited (based on Echinoidea)

Diet

detritivore (based on Cassiduloida)

Reproduction

dispersal=water,planktonic (based on Echinodermata)

Ontogeny

accretion,addition of parts (based on Echinodermata)

Taphonomy

high Mg calcite (based on Cassiduloida)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

G. Cotteau and V. Gauthier. 1895. Mission scientifique en Perse par J. de Morgan. Vol. 3, études géologiques, partie 2, Paléontologie. Leroux, Paris

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Pygurostoma geometricum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Pygurostoma morgani ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Pygurostoma pasionense ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Pygurostoma pasionensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1895	Pygurostoma Cotteau and Gauthier p. 51
1962	Pygurostoma Kier p. 134
1966	Pygurostoma Kier p. U513
1995	Pygurostoma Smith p. 199
2002	Pygurostoma Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Cotteau G., Gauthier V. , Mission scientifique en Perse par J. de Morgan. Vol. 3, études géologiques, partie 2, Paléontologie. Leroux, Paris, 1-107

Kier P. M. (1962) Revision of the cassiduloid echinoids, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 144 3, 1-262

Kier P. M. (1966) Cassiduloids, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part U. Echinodermata. 3 (2). Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Boulder and Lawrence, U492-U523

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

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

Nomenclator Zoologicus (authority adjusted) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

in Morgan, Miss. Perse, 3 (2), no. 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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