Heliolites occidentales Stauffer 1930

Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Heliolitidae

Full reference: C. R. Stauffer. 1930. The Devonian of California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 19(4):81-118

Belongs to Heliolites according to C. R. Stauffer 1930

Sister taxa: Heliolites barrandei, Heliolites porosus, Heliolites waicunensis

Type specimen: UCMP 33026. Its type locality is Kearsarge section, bed 8 of Stauffer 1930, which is in a Silurian carbonate limestone in the Vaughn Gulch Formation of California.

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore

Distribution: found only at Kearsarge section, bed 8 of Stauffer 1930

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