Glyptocystites fultonensis Caster et al. (1955) pl. 2, fig. 22, herein Fig. 3.5)
Full reference: C. D. Sumrall and G. A. Schumacher. 2002. Cheirocystis fultonensis, a new glyptocystitoid rhombiferan from the Upper Ordovician of the Cincinnati Arch - comments on cheirorinid ontogeny. Journal of Paleontology 76(5):843-851
Belongs to Cheirocystis according to C. D. Sumrall and G. A. Schumacher 2002
Sister taxa: Cheirocystis anatiformis, Cheirocystis ardmorensis, Cheirocystis liexiensis, Cheirocystis radiatus
Type specimen: CMC-P50402. Its type locality is Road-cut along Kentucky Route 1159 just south of the Alexandria to Ashland Hwy, which is in an Edenian carbonate packstone in the Kope Formation of Kentucky.
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Road-cut along Kentucky Route 1159 just south of the Alexandria to Ashland Hwy
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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