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Antigona Schumacher 1817

ecomorphological guild

Paleobiology Database
deep infaunal
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/deepInfaunal

Definition: Benthic organism that lives deep within unlithified (soft) substrate.

Attribution: http://paleodb.org/public/tips/ecology_tips.html

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first appearance

Paleobiology Database

20.44 million years ago

(max)
Paleobiology Database
burdigalian age
URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Burdigalian

Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale

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last appearance

Paleobiology Database

15.97 million years ago

(min)

motility

Paleobiology Database
facultatively mobile
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/facultativelyMobile

Definition: Organisms that can change location but do so infrequently, e.g., crinoids, some infaunal bivalves.

Attribution: http://paleodb.org/public/tips/ecology_tips.html

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(adult)

number of fossil occurrences

Paleobiology Database

1

trophic guild

Paleobiology Database
chemosymbiosis
URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q50616418

Definition: a symbiosis in which a bacterium provides chemically-derived energy and nutrients, often via the oxidation of hydrogen sulfide, to a heterotrophic organism.

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