Scutella (genus)
Scutella (genus) Temporal range:
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Fossils of Scutella paulensis from France, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
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Phylum: | Echinodermata
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Class: | Echinoidea
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Order: | Clypeasteroida
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Genus: | Scutella Lamarck 1816
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Scutella is an extinct genus of sand dollars (flat sea urchins) in the family Scutellidae.
These slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivores lived from the Oligocene to the Quaternary epoch (48.6 to 0.012 Ma.).[1]
Species[]
- Scutella gabbi Raimond 1863
- Scutella paulensis Agassiz 1841
References[]
Categories:
- Miocene animals
- Clypeasteroida
- Pliocene animals
- Pleistocene animals
- Extant Oligocene first appearances
- Cenozoic animals of South America
- Fossil taxa described in 1816
- Prehistoric echinoderms of Africa
- Echinoidea stubs
- Prehistoric echinoderm stubs