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Carisma paternum
“Father’s gift”- Kingdom
- Microsynthera
- Phylum
- Plasticae
- Class
- Occlupanida
- Order
- Orthogonidectes
- Family
- Tridentidae
- Genus
- Carisma
- Species
- C. paternum
- External morphology
Often found in red. Processes on oral hooks and aboral region. Rounded corners. Size 26 mm x 21.5 mm.
Species named by occlupanologist A. Welby, whose father discovered this Tridentid specimen near a dumpster in New Hampshire. Carisma paternum has a significantly larger oral groove than C. matsumotoi.