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Lithochytris


Classification: rads_cenozoic -> Theoperidae -> Lychnocaniidae -> Lithochytris
Sister taxa: Dictyophimus, Lamprotripus, Lithochytris, Lychnocanium, Lychnocanoma, Pleuropodium, Pterocanium, Stichopilidium
Daughter taxa (time control age-window is: 0-800Ma)
Lithochytris archaea

neptune records: 61
Lithochytris triconiscus

neptune records: 194
Lithochytris ventricosa

neptune records:
Lithochytris vespertilio

neptune records: 369
Lithochytris sp.

neptune records: 2

Taxonomy

Citation: Lithochytris Ehrenberg 1847
Taxonomic rank: genus
Basionym: Lithochytris

Catalog entries: Lithochytris

Original description: Apertura unica (simplex aut cancellala). Testularum articuli seu stricturae distincta. Testae stricturis pluribus, articulo postico clauso postica parte lobata aut appendicibus (aculeis).

Translated description: Aperture single (simple or latticed). Test with segments or distinct strictures. Test with more than one stricture, last segment closed. Posterior part lobate or distinguished by appendages (spines). (Translated from Latin by E.M.R. and W.R.R.)]
Remarks on original description: [Synonymized with Podocyrtis by Haeckel, 1862, p.337]

Description

Biogeography and Palaeobiology

Biostratigraphic distribution

Geological Range:
Last occurrence (top): at top of Paleogene Period (100% up, 23Ma, in Aquitanian stage). Data source: Total of ranges of the species in this database
First occurrence (base): within Paleogene Period (23.03-66.04Ma, base in Danian stage). Data source: Total of ranges of species in this database

Plot of occurrence data:

References:

Ehrenberg, C. G. (1847). Uber die mikroskopischen kieselschaligen Polycystinen als machtige Gebirgsmasse von Barbados und uber das Verhaltniss der aus mehr als 300 neuen Arten bestehenden ganz eigenthumlichen Formengruppe jener Felsmasse zu den jetzt lebenden Tieren und zur. Bericht uber die zu Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Koniglichen Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1847: 41-60. gs


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