Cupitheca Duan 1984

Hyolitha - Orthothecida

Alternative spellings: Actinotheca, Cupittheca

Synonyms: Arcitheca Duan 1984, Emeitheca Duan 1984, Ensitheca Duan 1984, Varitheca Duan 1984

Full reference: C. Duan. 1984. Small shelly fossils from the Lower Cambrian Xihaoping Formation the Shennongjia district, Hubei Province - hyoliths and fossil skeletons of unknown affinities. Bulletin of the Tianjin Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources 7:141-188

Parent taxon: Orthothecida according to A. Kouchinsky et al. 2017

See also Bengtson et al. 1990, Brock and Cooper 1993, Duan 1984, Gravestock et al. 2001, Parkhaev and Demidenko 2010, Sepkoski 2002 and Xing et al. 1984

Sister taxa: Aldanothecidae, Allathecidae, Ancheilotheca, Bolitheca, Brevitheca, Bucanotheca, Carinitheca, Chelsonella, Circothecidae, Curtitheca, Ebianotheca, Eogloborilus, Eonovitatus, Girvanolithes, Gracilithecidae, Grandicornus, Hexitheca, Inflaticornus, Isititheca, Khetatheca, Kotuyitheca, Lophotheca, Minitheca, Mooritheca, Neobactrotheca, Nikatheca, Novitatidae, Orthothecidae, Panitheca, Paragloborilus, Petasotheca, Plicitheca, Probactrotheca, Renitheca, Sysoievia, Tchuranitheca, Tetratheca, Tetrathecidae, Triplicatellidae, Turcutheca

Subtaxa: Actinotheca aphroditae Actinotheca clathrata Arcitheca coarctata Arcitheca gracilis Arcitheca semigyra Cupitheca hemicyclata Cupitheca holocyclata Cupittheca mira

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Type: Paragloborilus mirus

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (5 collections)

• Cambrian of Antarctica (1), Australia (49), Canada (4: Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia), China (36), Greenland (7), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 104 collections including 119 occurrences

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