Cyrtina Davidson 1858 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae

Synonym: Trochalocyrtina

Parent taxon: Cyrtinidae according to A. Williams et al. 2006

See also Brunton and Champion 1974 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Cyrtinaella, Licharewina, Squamulariina, Tecnocyrtina

Subtaxa: Cyrtina (Cyrtina) Cyrtina billingsi Cyrtina bouchardi Cyrtina burlingtonensis Cyrtina davidsoni Cyrtina hamiltonensis Cyrtina katzeri Cyrtina minuta Cyrtina varia Cyrtina walteri

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Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1 collection), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (13), Italy (1), Romania (1), Ukraine (1), United States (2: Alaska)

• Permian of Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)

• Osagean of United States (1: Kentucky)

• Carboniferous of China (1), Mexico (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (17: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Idaho, Indiana, Missouri, Nevada, Tennessee, Texas, Utah)

• Devonian of Afghanistan (6), Australia (15), Austria (1), Belarus (1), Brazil (2), Canada (86: British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (12), Colombia (11), the Czech Republic (5), France (25), Germany (26), Luxembourg (1), Morocco (2), Myanmar (2), New Zealand (1), Poland (9), the Russian Federation (10), Spain (9), Ukraine (6), United States (284: Alaska, California, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin), Venezuela (4)

• Silurian to Devonian of Ukraine (1), United States (1: Oklahoma)

• Silurian of Canada (2: Northwest Territories), China (1), United States (4: California, New York)

Total: 570 collections including 603 occurrences

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