Cloudia Knight 1947 (mollusk)

Tergomya - Cyrtonellida - Cyrtolitidae

Full reference: J. B. Knight. 1947. Some new Cambrian bellerophont gastropods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 106(17):1-11

Parent taxon: Cyrtolitidae according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Knight et al. 1960, Runnegar and Jell 1976 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Carcassonnellinae, Cyclocyrtonella, Cyrtolites, Cyrtonellopsis, Kolihadiscus, Neocyrtolites, Paracyrtolites, Quasisinuites, Sinuella, Sinuitopsina, Sinuitopsis, Telamocornu, Yochelsonellis

Subtaxa: Cloudia buttsi

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Type: Cloudia buttsi

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at Near Rock Run, along Alabama-Georgia state line at midlength (Cambrian of Alabama)

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