Amygdalotheca

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Amygdalotheca
Temporal range: Early Ordovician (Lower Arenig), 477.1–471.3  Ma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Stylophora
Order: Cornuta
Family: Amygdalothecidae
Genus: Amygdalotheca
Ubaghs, 1969
Species:
A. griffei
Binomial name
Amygdalotheca griffei
Ubaghs, 1969

Amygdalotheca is an extinct genus of cornute stylophoran known from the Lower Arenig of the Saint-Chinian Formation, southern France. [1] [2]

References

  1. Lefebvre, Bertrand; Vizcaino, Daniel (1 January 1999). "New Ordovician cornutes(Echinodermata, Stylophora) from Montagne Noire and Brittany (France) and a revision of the order Cornuta Jaekel 1901: To the memory of Jean Chauvel" . Geobios. 32 (3): 421–458. Bibcode:1999Geobi..32..421L. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(99)80019-9. ISSN   0016-6995.
  2. Lefebvre, Bertrand (September 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. ISSN   0022-3360.