Demospongiae - Lithistida - Anthaspidellidae
Full reference: J. S. Cullison. 1944. The stratigraphy of some Lower Ordovician formations of the Ozark uplift. University of Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy Technical Series Bulletin 15(2):1-112
Belongs to Archaeoscyphia according to J. S. Cullison 1944
Sister taxa: Archaeoscyphia alternata, Archaeoscyphia annulata, Archaeoscyphia attenuata, Archaeoscyphia bassleri, Archaeoscyphia boltoni, Archaeoscyphia eganensis, Archaeoscyphia gislei, Archaeoscyphia mazourkaensis, Archaeoscyphia minganensis, Archaeoscyphia nana, Archaeoscyphia pannosa, Archaeoscyphia pulchra, Archaeoscyphia rectilinearis, Archaeoscyphia rossi, Archaeoscyphia scalaria, Archaeoscyphia tenuis, Archaeoscyphia undulata
Type specimen: Its type locality is M. S. M. 72.42. US 63, at crest over Pilot Knob, east side of road, which is in a Jeffersonian carbonate dolomite in the Rich Fountain Formation of Missouri.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at M. S. M. 72.42. US 63, at crest over Pilot Knob, east side of road
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