Hyolithus pallidus Cobbold 1931

Hyolitha - Hyolithida - Hyolithidae

Full reference: E. S. Cobbold. 1931. Additional fossils from the Cambrian Rocks of Comley, Shropshire. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 87:459-512

Belongs to Hyolithus according to E. S. Cobbold 1931

Sister taxa: Hyolithes (Pharetrella), Hyolithes aclis, Hyolithes acutus, Hyolithes aliger, Hyolithes americanus, Hyolithes amosi, Hyolithes aplatus, Hyolithes asteroideus, Hyolithes cariniferus, Hyolithes columbanus, Hyolithes conularioides, Hyolithes daphnis, Hyolithes delia, Hyolithes dorbignyi, Hyolithes endoi, Hyolithes exilis, Hyolithes fuchouensis, Hyolithes gibbosus, Hyolithes girvanensis, Hyolithes hathewayi, Hyolithes immemor, Hyolithes kuantungensis, Hyolithes mantouensis, Hyolithes minutissimus, Hyolithes multicinctus, Hyolithes multipunctatus, Hyolithes obesus, Hyolithes ornatellus, Hyolithes paishanensis, Hyolithes penkillensis, Hyolithes primordialis, Hyolithes sondai, Hyolithes sonora, Hyolithes tenuis, Hyolithes vanuxemi, Hyolithes wanneri, Hyolithus (Hyolithus), Hyolithus mimicus, Theca richteri

Type specimen: Its type locality is Comley Quarry, Comley, which is in a Branchian carbonate limestone in the Lower Comley Formation of the United Kingdom

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Comley Quarry, Comley

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