Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Synonym: Rhabdochites
Full reference: E. Billings. 1872. On some fossils from the primordial rocks of Newfoundland. Canadian Naturalist and Quarterly Journal of Science 6:465-479
Parent taxon: Hyolithellidae according to A. Kouchinsky et al. 2017
See also Fisher 1962, Landing et al. 2008, Parkhaev and Demidenko 2010, Rozanov et al. 1969, Sepkoski 2002, Skovsted 2006 and Wrona 2004
Sister taxa: Barella, Hexagonellus, Pseudorthotheca
Subtaxa: Hyolithellus decorus Hyolithellus filiformis Hyolithellus grandis Hyolithellus insolitus Hyolithellus isiticus Hyolithellus micans Hyolithellus papillatus Hyolithellus rectus Hyolithellus sinuosus Hyolithellus tenuis Hyolithellus vitricus Hyolithellus vladimirovae Rhabdochites scissus
Type: Hyolithus micans
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Amgan of Kyrgyzstan (1 collection)
• Delamaran of Canada (2: British Columbia), United States (1: Virginia)
• Cambrian of Antarctica (1), Australia (33), Canada (19: British Columbia, Labrador, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Quebec), China (48), France (2), Greenland (39), India (1), Iran (2), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (21), Kyrgyzstan (4), Mexico (5), Mongolia (3), Morocco (3), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (50), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Sweden (11), the United Kingdom (8), United States (20: Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia, Washington)
• Placentian of Canada (2: Nova Scotia), United States (1: Massachusetts)
• Caerfai of United States (1: New York)
• Waucoban of United States (1: Washington)
Total: 282 collections including 357 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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