Gelenoptron Conway Morris 1993

Hydrozoa - Hydroida

Alternative spelling: Gelenptron

Full reference: S. Conway Morris. 1993. Ediacaran-like fossils in Cambrian Burgess Shale-type faunas of North America. Palaeontology 36(3):593-635

Parent taxon: Chondrophorina according to S. Conway Morris 1993

See also Bambach et al. 2007 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxon: Chondroplidae

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Gelenoptron in the database

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