Conularia splendida Billings 1866 (jellyfish)

Scyphozoa - Conulariida - Conulariidae

Full reference: E. Billings. 1866. Catalogues of the Silurian fossils of the Island of Anticosti, with descriptions of some new genera and species 1-93

Belongs to Conularia according to S. P. Robson and G. A. Young 2013

See also Billings 1866 and Twenhofel 1928

Sister taxa: Conularia (Conularia), Conularia acutilirata, Conularia anuiensis, Conularia clarkei, Conularia crenulata, Conularia crustula, Conularia huntiana, Conularia kolymaensis, Conularia manni, Conularia miseneri, Conularia missouriensis, Conularia niagarensis, Conularia paraguayensis, Conularia planicostata, Conularia porcella, Conularia quadrisulcata, Conularia triangulata

Type specimen: Canadian National Museum 2157. Its type locality is Carleton Point, which is in a Richmondian carbonate limestone/shale in the Vaureal Formation of Canada.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Ordovician of Canada (3: Manitoba, Quebec collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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