Barrandeocarpus[1][2] is a genus of Ordovician mitrate thought to resemble the ancestral untorted morphology of the group.[3]

Barrandeocarpus
Temporal range: Ordovician
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Stylophora
Order: Mitrata
Family: Placocystitinae
Genus: Barrandeocarpus
Ubaghs, 1979

References

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  1. ^ Ubaghs, Georges (1979). "Trois mitrata (Echinodermata: Stylophora) nouveaux de ľordovicien de tchécoslovaquie". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 53 (1–2): 98–119. doi:10.1007/BF02987791. S2CID 128966012.
  2. ^ Craske, A. J.; Jefferies, Richard P. S. (1989). "A New Mitrate from the Upper Ordovician of Norway, and a New Approach to Subdividing a Plesion". Palaeontology. 32 (1): 69–99.
  3. ^ Parsley, Ronald L. (2000). "Morphological and Paleoecological Analysis of the Ordovician Ankyroid Lagynocystis (Stylophora: Echinodermata)". Journal of Paleontology. 74 (2). Cambridge University Press: 254–262. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2000)074<0254:MAPAOT>2.0.CO;2. S2CID 130024801.