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Calcligula

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4877127	https://www.gbif.org/species/4877127
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	31308	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=31308

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Holothuroidea : Molpadida : Molpadiidae : Calcligula

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Holothuroidea : Molpadiida : Molpadiidae : Calcligula

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	Molpadiida	Haeckel 1896
family	Molpadiidae	Müller 1850
genus	Calcligula	Frizzell & Exline 1955

Scientific Name

Calcligula Frizzell & Exline, 1955

Name Published In

Bull. Univ. Mo. Mines, Met., 89

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Calcligula	genus	belongs to Stichopitidae	stated without evidence	Frizzell and Exline, 1955
Calcligula	genus	belongs to Molpadiida	stated without evidence	Pawson, 1966
Calcligula	genus	belongs to Stichopitidae	stated without evidence	Frizzell and Exline, 1966
Calcligula	genus	belongs to Molpadiida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Calcligula	genus	belongs to Molpadiidae	stated without evidence	Reich, 2003

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (9.1%)

First Recorded Appearance

237 - 232 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic

Environment

marine (based on Echinodermata)

Motility

stationary (based on Molpadiida)

Vision

blind (based on Holothuroidea)

Diet

deposit feeder (based on Molpadiida)

Reproduction

dispersal=water,planktonic (based on Echinodermata)

Ontogeny

accretion,addition of parts (based on Echinodermata)

Taphonomy

high Mg calcite (based on Molpadiida)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

D. L. Frizzell and H. Exline. 1955. Monograph of fossil holothurian sclerites. Bulletin of the Missouri University School of Metallurgy and Mines, Technical series 89:1-204

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Calcligula ansorgei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Calcligula costata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Calcligula cretacea ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Calcligula elgeri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Calcligula ficta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	164 Ma Middle Jurassic	164 Ma Middle Jurassic
Calcligula frenzeli ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Calcligula gracilis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Calcligula jurassica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	170 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Calcligula liguliformis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	136 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	136 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Calcligula perforata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1955	Calcligula Frizzell and Exline
1958	Calcligula Said and Barakat p. 267
1962	Calcligula Deflandre-Rigaud p. 40
1966	Calcligula Frizzell and Exline p. U662
1966	Calcligula Pawson p. U645
1972	Calcligula Kristan-Tollmann p. 125
2002	Calcligula Sepkoski, Jr.
2003	Calcligula Reich p. 231

References

Frizzell D. L., Exline H. (1955) Monograph of fossil holothurian sclerites, Bulletin of the Missouri University School of Metallurgy and Mines, Technical series 89, 1-204

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

Pawson D. L. (1966) Phylogeny and evolution of holothuroids, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part U. Echinodermata 3. The Geological Society of America and The University of Kansas Press 2, U641-U646

Kristan-Tollmann E. (1972) Einige neue mesozoische Holothurien-Sklerite, Mitteilungen der Geologischen Gesellschaft in Wien 65, 123-136

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

Reich M. (2003) Holothurien (Echinodermata) aus der Oberkreide des Ostseeraumes: teil. 5. Molpadiidae J. Müller, 1859, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie une Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 229 2, 231-253

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

Bull. Univ. Mo. Mines, Met., 89 - 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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