Biology:Barrandeocarpus

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Short description: Extinct genus of mitrates

Barrandeocarpus
Temporal range: Ordovician
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Stylophora
Order: Mitrata
Family: Placocystitinae
Genus: Barrandeocarpus
Ubaghs, 1979

Barrandeocarpus[1][2] is a genus of Ordovician mitrate thought to resemble the ancestral untorted morphology of the group.[3]

References

  1. Ubaghs, Georges (1979). "Trois mitrata (Echinodermata: Stylophora) nouveaux de ľordovicien de tchécoslovaquie". Paläontologische Zeitschrift 53 (1–2): 98–119. doi:10.1007/BF02987791. 
  2. Craske, A. J.; Jefferies, Richard P. S. (1989). "A New Mitrate from the Upper Ordovician of Norway, and a New Approach to Subdividing a Plesion". Palaeontology 32 (1): 69–99. https://www.palass.org/publications/palaeontology-journal/archive/32/1/article_pp69-99. 
  3. Parsley, Ronald L. (2000). "Morphological and Paleoecological Analysis of the Ordovician Ankyroid Lagynocystis (Stylophora: Echinodermata)". Journal of Paleontology (Cambridge University Press) 74 (2): 254–262. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2000)074<0254:MAPAOT>2.0.CO;2. 

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