Hysterolites von Schlotheim 1820 (lamp shell)

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

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Devonian of Australia (24 collections), Austria (1), the Czech Republic (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

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