Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae
Full reference: E.F. von Schlotheim. 1820. Die Petrfactendunde auf ihrem jetzigen Standpunkte durch die Beshreibung seiner Sammlung versteinerter und fossiler Überreste des Thier- und Pflanzernreichs der Vorwelt erläutert 1-457
Parent taxon: Hysterolitinae according to A. Williams et al. 2006
See also Johnson 1995 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Antispirifer, Arduspirifer, Australospirifer, Brachyspirifer, Costellispirifer, Dixonella, Dyticospirifer, Euryspirifer, Otospirifer, Paraspirifer, Patriaspirifer, Rostrospirifer, Trigonospirifer, Xinjiangospirifer
Subtaxa: Hysterolites piger Hysterolites pinguis Hysterolites tritus
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (24 collections), Austria (1), Czechia (3), France (8), Germany (7), the Russian Federation (2), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (8: Nevada, New York), Vietnam (7)
• Silurian of Australia (1)
Total: 65 collections including 70 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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