Pentaradiate diploporites (Echinodermata) from the Spanish Middle Ordovician and their taxonomic significance

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  • Christopher R.C. Paul Universidad de Valencia
  • Juan Carlos Gutiérrez-Marcos Universidad Complutense de Madrid

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/sjp.25498

Palabras clave:

Echinodermata, Diploporita, Anambulacralia, Ordovician, Darriwilian, Central Iberian Zone

Resumen

New Middle Ordovician specimens of pentaradiate diploporite blastozoans from the southern Central Iberian Zone, Spain, show that Oretanocalix is an aristocystitid diploporite with five ambulacra; all other aristocystitid genera have 2?4 ambulacra. The laterally elongate oral frame is composed of eight plates, with five, facet-bearing, circumorals (COO) and three, non-facet-bearing, periorals (POO). This necessitates a new interpretation of the aristocystitid oral area and diagnosis of the family Aristocystitidae. Previous interpretations assumed four COO and four POO. Weathered examples lack oral cover plates and show that plates CO1 and CO4, which support ambulacra D and B, respectively, do not reach the inner margin of the peristome. They also reveal abundant diplopores, which were covered by a thin epistereom in life. Diplopores grew at plate sutures and were incorporated into both adjacent plates as the plates enlarged. Oretanocalix julioi n. sp. extends the stratigraphic range of Oretanocalix back to the basal Dobrotivian ?low in the Upper Darriwilian. The genus Batalleria is a sphaeronitid diploporite with food grooves that branched within the peristome. The branching pattern reflects Lovén’s law and is: AR, BL, CR, DL, ER, where A?E denote Carpenter’s ambulacra and L (left) and R (right) denote on which side of the ambulacrum the first branch lies. Each branch leaves the peristome by a separate ambulacral orifice. No other sphaeronitids have food grooves that branch within the peristome and all other sphaeronitids have one ambulacral orifice per ambulacrum. Thus, a new diagnosis of sphaeronitids is necessary.

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2022-12-29

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Paul, C. R., & Gutiérrez-Marcos, J. C. (2022). Pentaradiate diploporites (Echinodermata) from the Spanish Middle Ordovician and their taxonomic significance. Spanish Journal of Palaeontology, 37(2), 153–176. https://doi.org/10.7203/sjp.25498
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