Hyolitha - Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
Alternative combination: Hyolithes excellens
Full reference: E. Billings. 1872. On some fossils from the primordial rocks of Newfoundland. Canadian Naturalist and Quarterly Journal of Science 6:465-479
Belongs to Nevadotheca according to J. M. Malinky 1990
See also Billings 1872
Sister taxa: Nevadotheca cybele, Nevadotheca heckeli, Nevadotheca princeps, Nevadotheca whitei
Type specimen: USNM 390621, a shell. Its type locality is Red Limestone, Smith’s Sound, which is in a Branchian carbonate limestone in the Brigus Formation of Canada.
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cambrian of Canada (1: Newfoundland and Labrador collection)
• Placentian of Canada (1: Newfoundland and Labrador)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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