Calcancora

Calcancora
Temporal range: Anisian–Tortonian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Holothuroidea
Order: Apodida
Family: Calcancoridae
Frizzell & Exline, 1955
Genus: Calcancora
Frizzell & Exline, 1955
Type species
Calcancora mississippiensis
Species
  • C. mississippiensis
  • C. pomerania

Calcancora is an extinct genus of sea cucumber which existed in Poland during the Triassic period, Germany during the upper Jurassic period, France, Brazil, and the United States during the Paleogene period, and Austria during the Tortonian period.[1] The type species is Calcancora mississippiensis.

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