Conotheca australiensis Bengtson et al. 1990

Hyolitha - Orthothecida - Circothecidae

Synonym: Conotheca laurentiensis Landing and Bartowski 1996

Full reference: S. Bengtson, S. Conway Morris, B. J. Cooper, P. A. Jell, and B. N. Runnegar. 1990. Early Cambrian fossils from South Australia. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 9:1-364

Belongs to Conotheca according to J. M. Malinky and C.B. Skovsted 2004

See also Bengtson et al. 1990, Gravestock et al. 2001, Landing and Bartowski 1996 and Qian et al. 2001

Sister taxa: Conotheca brevica, Conotheca circumflexa, Conotheca corniformis, Conotheca curta, Conotheca dahaiensis, Conotheca mammilata, Conotheca ningqiangensis, Conotheca rotunda, Conotheca shennongjiaensis, Conotheca subcurvata

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cambrian of Australia (18 collections), Canada (10: Nova Scotia, Quebec), Greenland (12), Turkey (1), United States (6: New York, Pennsylvania)

Total: 47 collections each including a single occurrence

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