Synonyms: Protomelission Brock and Cooper 1993, Sugaites Qian and Xiao 1984
Full reference: A. M. Mambetov and L. N. Repina. 1979. The Lower Cambrian of the Talassk Ala-Too and its correlation with the sections of Karatau Minor and the Siberian Platform. Rossiiskaya Akademiya Nauk Sibirskoe Otdelenie Trudy Instituta Geologii i Geofiziki 406:98-138
Parent taxon: Dasycladales according to J. Yang et al. 2023
See also Bengtson 1992, Duan 1984, Mambetov and Repina 1979, Qian and Zhang 1983, Sepkoski 2002, Xiang et al. 2023, Yao et al. 2005 and Zhang et al. 2021
Sister taxa: Acicularia, Actinoporella, Angioporella, Anisoporella, Ansoporella, Anthracoporella, Beresellaceae, Bornetellaceae, Chaetocladus, Coelosporella, Columbiapora, Connexia, Dasycladaceae, Diploporaceae, Furcatoporella, Goniolina, Koninckopora, Linoporella, Masloviporella, Megaporella, Montenegrella, Pasceolus, Petrascula, Placklesia, Polyphysaceae, Praturlonella, Pseudoactinoporella, Pseudoepimastopora, Rajkaella, Rhabdoporella, Russoella, Sakkionella, Salpingoporelleae, Seletonellaceae, Similiclypeina, Terquemella, Texturata, Thyrsoporella, Thyrsoporellaceae, Triploporellaceae, Uteria, Uterioides, Villosoporella
Subtaxa: Cambroclavus absonus Cambroclavus antis Cambroclavus bicornis Cambroclavus clavus Cambroclavus clypeatus Cambroclavus dolicanthus Cambroclavus fangxianensis Cambroclavus hubeiensis Cambroclavus ludwigsdorfensis Cambroclavus olecranus Cambroclavus undulatus Protomelission gatehousei
Type: Cambroclavus clavus
Ecology: stationary epifaunal "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Cambrian of Australia (16 collections), China (12), Germany (1), Kazakhstan (11), Kyrgyzstan (4), Spain (2)
Total: 46 collections including 72 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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