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Jacksonaster acunai ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	153560	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=153560

Rank

species (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Clypeasteroida : Laganidae : Jacksonaster : Jacksonaster acunai

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	Laganiformes	Desor 1847
family	Laganidae
genus	Jacksonaster	Lambert and Thiéry 1914
species	Jacksonaster acunai	Lambert 1926

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Jacksonaster acunai	species	belongs to Jacksonaster	stated with evidence	Lambert, 1926

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

33.9 - 23.0 Ma
Cenozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

33.9 - 23.0 Ma
Cenozoic

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)

M. Sanchez Roig. 1926. Los Equiodermos fosiles de Cuba. Contribucion a la paleontologia Cubana

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1926	Jacksonaster acunai Lambert pp. 59-60 figs. pl. 13, figs. 6-8

References

Sanchez Roig M. (1926) Los Equiodermos fosiles de Cuba, Contribucion a la paleontologia Cubana, 1-179

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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