T339 Echinoderm Paleobiology: Diversity, Form, and Phylogeny
Wednesday, 4 November 2015
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 316
TAXONOMY, AND PALEOECOLOGY OF THE ORDOVICIAN EDRIOASTEROIDS OF THE BARRANDIAN AREA, CZECH REPUBLIC
Paper number: T339-13
Program: Technical Sessions
Time: 4:40 PM – 4:55 PM
Authors
Abstract
Barrandian edrioasteroids are all found in siliclastic sediments and utilized both shells of live hosts (trilobites and echinoderms) and skeletal debris (conulariids and cephalopods) for attachment. One species, Argodiscus hornyi is found exclusively attached to trilobites suggesting a commensal relationship. The species content is consistent with similarly aged faunas from Morocco consisting, of pyrgocystids, Euryeschatia, and Isorophusella, whereas Laurentian and Baltic faunas are dominated by Isorophids and edrioasterines.