Trilobita - Proetida - Bathyuridae
Synonyms: Goniotelina Whittington and Ross 1953, Goniotelus Ulrich 1927
Full reference: P. E. Raymond. 1925. Some trilobites of the lower Middle Ordovician of eastern North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 67(1):1-180
Parent taxon: Bathyuridae according to R. B. Neuman and D. L. Bruton 1974
See also Brett and Westrop 1996, Fortey and Droser 1999, Jell and Adrain 2002, Raymond 1925, Sepkoski 2002 and Whittington 1965
Sister taxa: Aponileus, Bathyurellinae, Bathyurinae, Bathyurus, Eleutherocentrus, Ermanella, Gignopeltis, Gladiatoria, Madaraspis, Psephosthenaspis, Pseudoolenoides, Raymondites, Strigigenalis
Subtaxa: Acidiphorus brevispicatus Acidiphorus brighti Acidiphorus hesperia Acidiphorus kindlei Acidiphorus ligo Acidiphorus lineotuberculatus Acidiphorus moorei Acidiphorus rostratus Acidiphorus scorpionis Acidiphorus spinifer Acidiphorus wahwahensis Acidiphorus whittingtoni Acidiphorus williamsi Goniotelina brevis Goniotelina broeggeri Goniotelina ensifer Goniotelina plicolabeonus Goniotelus unicornis
Type: Acidiphorus spinifer
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Whiterockian of Canada (9: Newfoundland and Labrador collections), Norway (1), United States (13: Nevada, Oklahoma)
• Arenigian of United States (1: Nevada)
• Arenig of United States (3: New York, Vermont)
• Ordovician of Canada (5: Alberta, Newfoundland, Ontario, Quebec), China (1), Norway (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (44: California, Missouri, Nevada, Utah)
• Canadian of Canada (2: Northwest Territories, Québec)
• Tremadoc of Canada (11: Alberta)
• Ibexian of Canada (1: Quebec), United States (1: New York)
Total: 94 collections including 102 occurrences
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