Alternative spellings: Actinotheca, Cupittheca
Synonyms: Arcitheca Duan 1984, Emeitheca Duan 1984, Ensitheca Duan 1984, Varitheca Duan 1984
Full reference: C. Duan. 1984. Small shelly fossils from the Lower Cambrian Xihaoping Formation the Shennongjia district, Hubei Province - hyoliths and fossil skeletons of unknown affinities. Bulletin of the Tianjin Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources 7:141-188
Parent taxon: Orthothecida according to A. Kouchinsky et al. 2017
See also Bengtson et al. 1990, Brock and Cooper 1993, Duan 1984, Gravestock et al. 2001, Parkhaev and Demidenko 2010, Sepkoski 2002 and Xing et al. 1984
Sister taxa: Aldanothecidae, Allathecidae, Ancheilotheca, Bolitheca, Brevitheca, Bucanotheca, Carinitheca, Chelsonella, Circothecidae, Curtitheca, Ebianotheca, Eogloborilus, Eonovitatus, Girvanolithes, Gracilithecidae, Grandicornus, Hexitheca, Inflaticornus, Isititheca, Khetatheca, Kotuyitheca, Lophotheca, Minitheca, Mooritheca, Neobactrotheca, Nikatheca, Novitatidae, Orthothecidae, Panitheca, Paragloborilus, Petasotheca, Plicitheca, Probactrotheca, Renitheca, Sysoievia, Tchuranitheca, Tetratheca, Tetrathecidae, Triplicatellidae, Turcutheca
Subtaxa: Actinotheca clathrata Arcitheca coarctata Arcitheca gracilis Arcitheca semigyra Cupitheca hemicyclata Cupitheca holocyclata Cupittheca mira
Type: Paragloborilus mirus
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cambrian of Antarctica (1 collection), Australia (49), Canada (4: Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia), China (36), Greenland (7), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 99 collections including 114 occurrences
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