Alternative spelling: Sinoclaves
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: Cambroclavitidae according to C. Duan 1984
See also Bengtson 1992 and Kiessling 2008
Sister taxa: Ambarchaeooides, Cambrothyra, Deiradovclavus, Deltaclavus, Isoclavus, Paracarinachites, Pseudoclavus, Tanbaoites, Zhijinites
Subtaxa: Sinoclavus clavatus Sinoclavus flabelliformis Sinoclavus humulis
Type: Sinoclavus clavatus
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at Xihaoping Formation, Hubei province (Cambrian of China)
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