Atdabanithes Meshkova 1974

Hyolitha - Hyolithida - Atdabanithidae

Full reference: N. P. Meshkova. 1974. Lower Cambrian hyoliths of the Siberian Platform. Ârusnoe ralenenie nižnego kembriâ Sibiri. Atlas okamenelostej. Trudy Instituta Geologii i Geofiziki, SO AN SSSR [Academy of Sciences of the USSR Siberian Branch Transactions of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics] 97:1-110

Parent taxon: Atdabanithidae according to N. P. Meshkova 1974

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxon: Planotheca

Subtaxa: Atdabanithes curvatus

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Type: Atdabanithes curvatus

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Left bank of Lena River, below the mouth of the stream Biskaebit. Bed 5 (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

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