Tergomya - Cyrtonellida - Cyrtolitidae
Alternative spelling: Bellerophon (Cyrtolites)
Full reference: T. A. Conrad. 1838. Report on the palaeontological department of the survey. New York Geological Survey, Annual Report 2:107-119
Parent taxon: Cyrtolitidae according to G.P. Wahlman 1992
See also Knight et al. 1960, Perner 1903, Runnegar and Jell 1976 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Carcassonnellinae, Cloudia, Cyclocyrtonella, Cyrtonellopsis, Kolihadiscus, Neocyrtolites, Paracyrtolites, Quasisinuites, Sinuella, Sinuitopsina, Sinuitopsis, Telamocornu, Yochelsonellis
Subtaxa: Cyrtolites (Cyrtolites) Cyrtolites (Cyrtonella) Cyrtolites budleighensis Cyrtolites claysferryensis Cyrtolites craigensis Cyrtolites dilatus Cyrtolites disjunctus Cyrtolites grandis Cyrtolites hornyi Cyrtolites inornatum Cyrtolites inprobus Cyrtolites insculptus Cyrtolites nodosus Cyrtolites occultus Cyrtolites ornatus Cyrtolites retrorsus Cyrtolites rugosus Cyrtolites seminulum Cyrtolites sinuatus Cyrtolites sinuosus Cyrtolites thraivensis Cyrtolites trentonensis Cyrtolites tuboides Cyrtolites undulatus
Type: Cyrtolites ornatus
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Devonian of United States (8: New York collections)
• Silurian of the Czech Republic (5), United States (1: Indiana)
• Ordovician of Australia (1), Canada (14: Ontario, Quebec, Québec), Estonia (4), the United Kingdom (17), United States (99: Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Tennessee)
Total: 149 collections including 164 occurrences
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