Cyrtia Dalman 1828 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae

Parent taxon: Cyrtiinae according to A. Williams et al. 2006

See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Jin and Chatterton 1997 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Dongbeiispirifer, Plicocyrtia

Subtaxa: Cyrtia alatiformis Cyrtia exporrectus

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Type: Anomites exporrectus

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of United States (1: Alaska collection)

• Devonian of the Czech Republic (1), United States (1: Alaska)

• Whitwellian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories)

• Jaani of Estonia (3), Lithuania (4)

• Niagaran of Canada (1: Québec)

• Silurian of Afghanistan (1), Belarus (1), Canada (11: British Columbia, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Québec), China (3), the Czech Republic (21), Estonia (7), Latvia (1), Lithuania (20), Mexico (3), Morocco (1), Norway (2), the Russian Federation (4), Sweden (13), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (17), United States (43: California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Utah, Wisconsin), Venezuela (2)

Total: 167 collections including 191 occurrences

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