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Mitrata ✝

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)31183https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=31183
Rankorder (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Stylophora : Mitrata
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
-Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermataKlein 1754
classStylophoraGill and Caster 1960
orderMitrataJaekel 1918
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Mitrataorderbelongs to Stylophorastated with evidenceParsley, 1991
Mitrataorderbelongs to Stylophorasecond handSepkoski, 2002
Mitrataorderbelongs to Stylophorastated with evidenceLefebvre and Gutierrez-Marco, 2003
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)82
First Recorded Appearance485 - 479 Ma
Paleozoic
Last Recorded Appearance318 - 315 Ma
Carboniferous
Environmentmarine (based on Echinodermata)
Motilitypassively mobile (based on Mitrata)
Visionblind (based on Stylophora)
Dietsuspension feeder (based on Mitrata)
Reproductiondispersal=water,planktonic (based on Echinodermata)
Ontogenyaccretion,addition of parts (based on Echinodermata)
Taphonomyhigh Mg calcite (based on Echinodermata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Anomalocystitida
suborder
listed (PBDB)17466 Ma
Middle Ordovician
419 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian
Lagynocystida
suborder
listed (PBDB)2479 Ma
Early/Lower Ordovician
466 Ma
Middle Ordovician
Mitrocystitida
suborder
listed (PBDB)31479 Ma
Early/Lower Ordovician
409 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian
Peltocystida
suborder
listed (PBDB)47485 Ma
Cambrian
318 Ma
Carboniferous
Allanicytidium
genus
listed (PBDB)1408 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian
408 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian
Anatiferopsis
genus
listed (PBDB)
Australocystis
genus
listed (PBDB)1393 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian
393 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian
Bokkeveldia
genus
listed (PBDB)
Chaivella
genus
listed (PBDB)
Diamphidiocystis
genus
listed (PBDB)6450 Ma
Late/Upper Ordovician
450 Ma
Late/Upper Ordovician
Lobocarpus
genus
listed (PBDB)
Mongolocarpos
genus
listed (PBDB)
Notocarpos
genus
listed (PBDB)1427 Ma
Silurian
427 Ma
Silurian
Occultocystis
genus
listed (PBDB)1419 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian
419 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian
Paranacystis
genus
listed (PBDB)11408 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian
393 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian
Placocystella
genus
listed (PBDB)8408 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian
393 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian
Placocystites
genus
listed (PBDB)2456 Ma
Late/Upper Ordovician
431 Ma
Silurian
Rhenocystis
genus
listed (PBDB)2409 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian
409 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian
Spermacystis
genus
listed (PBDB)
Tasmanicytidium
genus
listed (PBDB)1439 Ma
Silurian
439 Ma
Silurian
Willmanocystis
genus
listed (PBDB)3461 Ma
Middle Ordovician
461 Ma
Middle Ordovician
Yachalicystis
genus
listed (PBDB)1419 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian
419 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1918Mitrata Jaekel
1991Mitrata Parsley p. 18
1994Mitrata Ubaghs p. 124
2000Mitrata Lefebvre p. 900
2001Mitrata Lefebvre p. 622
2002Mitrata Sepkoski, Jr.
2003Mitrata Lefebvre and Gutierrez-Marco p. 43
2006Mitrata Lee et al. p. 1074

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560
Parsley R. L. (1991) Review of selected North American mitrate stylophorans (Homalozoa: Echinodermata), Bulletins of American Paleontology 100, 1-57
Ubaghs G. (1994) Echinodermes nouveaux (Stylophora, Eocrinoidea) de l’Ordovicien inférieur de la Montagne Noire (France), Annales de Paléontologie 80, 107-141
Lefebvre B. (2000) A new mitrate (Echinodermata, Stylophora) from the Tremadoc of Shropshire (England) and the origin of the Mitrocystitida, Journal of Paleontology 74 5, 890-906 doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2000)074<0890:ANMESF>2.0.CO;2
Lefebvre B. (2001) A critical comment on ‘ankyroids’ (Echinodermata, Stylophora), Geobios 34 6, 597-627 doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(01)80024-3
Lefebvre B., Gutierrez-Marco J. C. (2003) New Ordovician mitrocystitidan mitrates (Echinodermata, Stylophora) from the Central Iberian zone (Spain), Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 227 1, 39-61
Lee S.-B., Lefebvre B., et al (2006) Tremadocian stylophoran echinoderms from the Taebaeksan Basin, Korea, Journal of Paleontology 80 6, 1072-1086
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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