Artiopoda - Proetida - Bathyuridae

Alternative combination: Goniotelina hesperia

Full reference: R. J., J.r. Ross and H. B. Barnes. 1967. Some Middle Ordovician Brachiopods and Trilobites from the Basin Ranges, Western United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 523-D:D1-D4

Belongs to Acidiphorus according to K. D. Brett and S. R. Westrop 1996

See also Ross and Barnes 1967

Sister taxa: Acidiphorus brevispicatus, Acidiphorus brighti, Acidiphorus kindlei, Acidiphorus ligo, Acidiphorus lineotuberculatus, Acidiphorus moorei, Acidiphorus rostratus, Acidiphorus scorpionis, Acidiphorus spinifer, Acidiphorus wahwahensis, Acidiphorus whittingtoni, Acidiphorus williamsi, Goniotelina ensifer, Goniotelina broeggeri, Goniotelina plicolabeonus, Goniotelina brevis, Goniotelus unicornis

Type specimen: USNM 145794, a cephalon/head (cranidium)

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at USGS loc. D1398 CO, Funeral Mountains (Ordovician of California)

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