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Class Graptolithoidea, Order Cephalodiscoidea, Family Cephalodiscidae

Cephalodiscus lutetianus Abrard, Dollfus et Soyer, 1950

Cephalodiscus lutetianus is the only known fossil species of the recent genus Cephalodiscus M'Intosh, 1882. This form was described in 1950 from the Eocene of France. It was preserved in form of silicified tubes (up to 9 cm in length and 2.5 mm in diameter).       This species is known only from the type locality.

To the left - General view of silicified tubes. To the right - Details of the tube ornamentation.

Piotr Mierzejewski, the Count of Calmont &  Goethe Lab  - Centrum Paleobiologii        2003