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Parapygus ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	7986307	https://www.gbif.org/species/7986307
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	33236	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=33236

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Gitolampadids : Parapygus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Echinolampadoida : Echinolampadidae : Parapygus

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	Echinolampadoida	Kroh and Smith 2010
family	Echinolampadidae	Gray 1851
genus	Parapygus	Pomel 1883

Scientific Name

Parapygus Pomel, 1883

Name Published In

Pomel, A. 1883. Classification méthodique et Genera des Échinides vivantes et fossiles. Thèses présentées à la Faculté des Sciences de Paris pour obtenir le Grade de Docteur ès Sciences Naturelles 503, Adolphe Jourdan, Alger, 131 pp.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Parapygus	genus	belongs to Echinolampadidae	stated without evidence	Kier, 1962
Parapygus	genus	belongs to Echinolampadidae	stated with evidence	Smith, 1991
Parapygus	genus	belongs to Cassiduloida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

86.3 - 83.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

72.1 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

marine (based on Echinodermata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Echinoidea)

Vision

limited (based on Echinoidea)

Diet

grazer, deposit feeder (based on Echinoidea)

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)

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)
Parapygus cotteauanus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Parapygus longior ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Parapygus mossoroensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudocatopygus sanfilippoi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Pseudocatopygus Cotteau & Gauthier, 1895	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Gitolampadids : *Pseudocatopygus*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1895	Pseudocatopygus Cotteau and Gauthier
1955	Rostropygus Szörényi
1962	Parapygus Kier p. 99
1966	Parapygus Kier p. U508
1991	Parapygus Smith p. 48
2002	Parapygus Sepkoski, Jr.

References

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

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. (1991) Taxonomic descriptions, in Cretaceous echinoids from north-eastern Brazil, Fossils and Strata 31, 1-88

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

Classif. méth. Echin. - 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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