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Eocaudina

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Eocaudina is an extinct genus of sea cucumbers which existed in Poland during the Triassic period. It contains the species Eocaudina septaforaminalis and Eocaudina subhexagona.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eocaudina, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4877227	https://www.gbif.org/species/4877227
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	31239	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=31239

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Holothuroidea : Dendrochirotida : Calclamnidae : Eocaudina

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Holothuroidea : Dendrochirotida : Calclamnidae : Eocaudina

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
class	Holothuroidea
order	Dendrochirotida	Grube 1840
family	Calclamnidae	Frizzell and Exline 1955
subfamily	Eocaudiniinae	Boczarowski 2001
genus	Eocaudina	Martin 1952

Scientific Name

Eocaudina Martin, 1952

Name Published In

J. Paleont., 26

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Eocaudina	genus	belongs to Holothuroidea	stated without evidence	Martin, 1952
Eocaudina	genus	belongs to Calclamnidae	stated without evidence	Said and Barakat, 1958
Eocaudina	genus	belongs to Protocaudinidae	stated without evidence	Deflandre-Rigaud, 1962
Eocaudina	genus	subjective synonym of Thuroholia	stated without evidence	Reso and Wegner, 1964
Eocaudina	genus	belongs to Calclamnidae	stated without evidence	Frizzell and Exline, 1966
Eocaudina	genus	belongs to Eocaudiniinae	stated without evidence	Boczarowski, 2001
Eocaudina	genus	belongs to Calclamnidae	stated without evidence	Kalita et al., 2002
Eocaudina	genus	belongs to Dendrochirotida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Eocaudina	genus	belongs to Calclamniidae	stated without evidence	Al-Tamimi and Saqqa, 2008
Eocaudina	genus	belongs to Eocaudiniinae	stated without evidence	Bohaty and Herbig, 2010

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

9 (28%)

First Recorded Appearance

408 - 393 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian

Environment

marine (based on Dendrochirotida)

Motility

stationary (based on Dendrochirotida)

Vision

blind (based on Holothuroidea)

Diet

suspension feeder, detritivore (based on Dendrochirotida)

Reproduction

dispersal=water,planktonic (based on Echinodermata)

Ontogeny

accretion,addition of parts (based on Echinodermata)

Taphonomy

high Mg calcite (based on Dendrochirotida)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

W. R. Martin. 1952. Holothuroidea of the Iowa Devonian. Journal of Paleontology 26(5):728-729

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eocaudina

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Eocaudina acanthica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	237 Ma Middle Triassic	222 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Eocaudina angulata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Eocaudina bombayensis species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Eocaudina cassianensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		11	242 Ma Middle Triassic	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Eocaudina circularia species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Eocaudina columcanthus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian
Eocaudina concentrica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	380 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	380 Ma Late/Upper Devonian
Eocaudina crassa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	237 Ma Middle Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Eocaudina gornensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	382 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	382 Ma Late/Upper Devonian
Eocaudina gowdai species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Eocaudina gutschicki ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	315 Ma Carboniferous
Eocaudina hexagona ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Eocaudina hexagona species	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Eocaudina indica species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Eocaudina insolica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Eocaudina jaffari species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Eocaudina liassica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Eocaudina liptovskaensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Eocaudina longa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	237 Ma Middle Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Eocaudina marginata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		6	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Eocaudina mccormacki ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	265 Ma Permian
Eocaudina mostleri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Eocaudina ovalis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	382 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	380 Ma Late/Upper Devonian
Eocaudina patella ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	388 Ma Middle Devonian	388 Ma Middle Devonian
Eocaudina pentagona species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Eocaudina plaga ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	403 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Eocaudina ramosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	242 Ma Middle Triassic	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Eocaudina rimosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Eocaudina septaforaminalis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		18	408 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Eocaudina subhexagona ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		9	380 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Eocaudina subquadrata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Thuroholia marginata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1952	Eocaudina Martin p. 728
1958	Eocaudina Said and Barakat p. 267 figs. pl. 6 fig. 19, 20
1962	Eocaudina Deflandre-Rigaud p. 99
1966	Eocaudina Frizzell and Exline p. U664
1967	Eocaudina Gutschick et al. p. 1466
1968	Eocaudina Speckmann p. 200 figs. Fig. 2.4, 2.5
1971	Eocaudina Kozur and Mostler p. 27
1971	Eocaudina Mostler p. 7
1971	Eocaudina Zawidzka p. 433
1972	Eocaudina Mostler p. 17

Year	Name and Author
1976	Eocaudina Mostler and Rahimi-Yazd p. 10
1977	Eocaudina Wernlund p. 50
1986	Eocaudina Soodan p. 64
1989	Eocaudina Kozur and Mostler p. 680
1991	Eocaudina Soodan p. 3
2001	Eocaudina Boczarowski p. 135
2002	Eocaudina Kalita et al. p. 141
2002	Eocaudina Sepkoski, Jr.
2008	Eocaudina Al-Tamimi and Saqqa p. 87
2010	Eocaudina Bohaty and Herbig p. 380

References

Martin W. R. (1952) Holothuroidea of the Iowa Devonian, Journal of Paleontology 26 5, 728-729

Said R., Barakat M. G. (1958) Jurassic Microfossils from Gebel Maghara, Sinai, Egypt, Micropaleontology 4 3, 231-272

Deflandre-Rigaud M. (1962) Contribution à la connaissance des sclérites d'holothurides fossiles, Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Série C 11, 1-123

Frizzell D. L., Exline H. (1966) Holothuroidea - Fossil Record, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part U. Echinodermata 3. The Geological Society of America and The University of Kansas Press 2, U646-U672

Gutschick R. C., Canis W. F., et al (1967) Kinderhook (Mississippian) holothurian sclerites from Montana and Missouri, Journal of Paleontology 41 6, 1461-1480

Speckmann P. (1968) Holothurien-Sklerite aus der Mittel-Trias der Ostalpen, Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatsammlung für Paläontologie und historische Geologie 8, 197-218

Kozur H., Mostler H. (1971) Holothurien-Sklerite und Conodonten aus der Mittel- und Obertrias von Köveskál (Balatonhochland, Ungarn), Geologisch-Paläontologische Mitteilungen Innsbruck 1 10, 1-36

Mostler H. (1971) Holothuriensklerite aus anisichen, karnischen und norishen Hallstätterkalken, Geologisch-Paläontologische Mitteilungen Innsbruck 1 1, 1-30

Zawidzka K. (1971) Triassic Holothurian sclerites from Tatra mountains, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 16 4, 429-450

Mostler H. (1972) Neue Holothurien-Sklerite aus der Trias der Nördlichen Kalkalpen, Geologisch-Paläontologische Mitteilungen Innsbruck 2 7, 1-34

Mostler H., Rahimi-Yazd A. (1976) Neue Holothuriensklerite aus dem Oberperm von Julfa in Nordiran, Geologisch-Paläontologische Mitteilungen Innsbruck 5, 1-35

Wernlund R. J. (1977) , Biostratigraphy and paleocology of Holothurian sclerites from the Pinery Member, Bell Canyon Formation (Permian) of the Delaware Basin of West Texas. Master thesis, Geosciences Faculty of Texas Tech University, 1-122

Soodan K. S. (1986) Fossil Holothurioidea from the Triassic sequence of Spiti Himalaya, India, Geoscience Journal, Lucknow 7 1, 61-70

Kozur H., Mostler H. (1989) Echinoderm remains from the Middle Permian (Wordian) from Sosio Valley (western Sicily), Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 132, 677-685

Soodan K. S. (1991) Holothurian sclerites from the Western Indian Shelf sediments, Arabian Sea, Geoscience Journal, Lucknow 12 1, 1-12

Boczarowski A. (2001) Isolated sclerites of Devonian nonpelmatozoan echinoderms, Palaeontologia Polonica 59, 3-220

Kalita K. D., Kulshreshtha S. K., et al (2002) Fossil holothurian sclerite assemblage from the Callovian-Oxfordian rocks of Jaisalmer, Western Rajasthan, India, Journal Palaeontological Society, India 47, 137-144

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

Al-Tamimi M. M., Saqqa W. A. (2008) Holothurian Sclerites from the Upper Part of Ajlun Group (Late Cretaceous) of Salhoub Area, North Jordan, Dirasat, Pure Sciences 35 2, 81-95

Bohaty J., Herbig H.-G. (2010) Middle Givetian echinoderms from the Schlade Valley (Rhenish Massif, Germany): habitats, taxonomy and ecostratigraphy, Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 84, 365-385

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

J. Paleont., 26 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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