Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Synonyms: Bellerophon (Oxydiscus) Koken 1889 [objective synonym], Bellerophon (Tropidocyclus) de Koninck 1882, Oxydiscus Koken 1889 [objective synonym], Oxynodiscus Koken 1889 [objective synonym], Tropidocyclus de Koninck 1882
Full reference: F. B. Meek and A. H. Worthen. 1866. Descriptions of invertebrates from the Carboniferous System, Illinois. Geological Survey of Illinois 2:145-411
Parent taxon: Tropidodiscidae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005
See also Frech 1894, Knight 1941, Knight et al. 1960, Kobayashi 1934, Koken and Perner 1925, Perner 1903, Sepkoski 2002, Ulrich and Scofield 1897 and Wahlman 1992
Sister taxa: Groomodiscus, Kosorodiscus, Neimongolidiscus, Nylanderina, Sinuitina, Spirilira, Temnodiscinae, Vorticina, Westraliadiscus, Zonidiscus
Subtaxa: Oxydiscus bougangensis Tropidodiscus (Tropidodiscus) Tropidodiscus (Umbilicatus) Tropidodiscus annularis Tropidodiscus antarcticus Tropidodiscus arisaigensis Tropidodiscus carinatus Tropidodiscus carnicus Tropidodiscus centrifugulus Tropidodiscus compticarinatus Tropidodiscus cultricarinatus Tropidodiscus curvilineatus Tropidodiscus decussata Tropidodiscus delanoui Tropidodiscus foliatus Tropidodiscus geyeri Tropidodiscus globosus Tropidodiscus imitator Tropidodiscus minimus Tropidodiscus nakazatensis Tropidodiscus obex Tropidodiscus phoenix Tropidodiscus pragensis Tropidodiscus regularis Tropidodiscus rotula Tropidodiscus vesculilineatus Tropidodiscus waratahensis
Type: Bellerophon curvilineatus
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Permian of China (2 collections), India (1)
• Carboniferous of Australia (2), Belgium (1), United States (1: Virginia)
• Givetian of France (1)
• Devonian of Australia (10), Austria (10), Brazil (1), Canada (1: Ontario), China (1), the Czech Republic (3), France (1), Germany (1), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (9), Luxembourg (3), South Africa (1), United States (9: Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio), Vietnam (1)
• Silurian of Australia (2), Canada (1: Nova Scotia), the Czech Republic (1), France (1), Mexico (3), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Ohio)
• Dobrotivian of the Czech Republic (1)
• Arenig of United States (1: Montana)
• Ordovician of Canada (1: Ontario), China (8), the Czech Republic (1), Iran (1), Norway (3), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (3), United States (15: Alaska, Iowa, Kentucky, North Dakota, Ohio, Virginia)
• Tremadoc of Argentina (2), Bolivia (2), China (1), Colombia (1)
Total: 113 collections including 117 occurrences
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