Artiopoda - Agnostida - Eodiscidae
Synonym: Aculeodiscus Snajdr 1950
Parent taxon: Eodiscidae according to H. B. Whittington et al. 1997
See also Jell and Adrain 2002, Sepkoski 2002 and Snajdr 1958
Sister taxa: Eodiscus, Helepagetia, Kiskinella, Macannaia, Opsidiscus, Pagetia, Pagetides, Sinopagetia
Subtaxa: Dawsonia dawsoni
Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Silurian of the United Kingdom (1 collection)
• Solvan of the Czech Republic (1)
• Amgan of the Czech Republic (1)
• Delamaran of Canada (1: New Brunswick)
• Caerfai of Italy (3)
• Cambrian of Canada (1: New Brunswick), Italy (2), United States (3: Massachusetts, Pennsylvania)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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