Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
Alternative spelling: Bellerophon (Sinuites)
Synonyms: Discolites Emmons 1855, Protowarthia Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Full reference: E. Koken. 1896. Die Leitfossilien. Ein Handbuch für den Unterricht und für das Bestimmen von Versteinerungen 1-848
Parent taxon: Sinuitinae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005
See also Knight 1941, Knight et al. 1960, Perner 1903, Sepkoski 2002 and Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Sister taxa: Branzovodiscus, Hispanosinuites, Modestospira, Selesinuites
Subtaxa: Sinuites (Sinuites) Sinuites ammonoides Sinuites anceps Sinuites angulatus Sinuites angustus Sinuites bilobatus Sinuites cancellatus Sinuites cordateformis Sinuites corpulentus Sinuites crypticus Sinuites destombesi Sinuites discoides Sinuites globularis Sinuites gracilis Sinuites granistriatus Sinuites hanusi Sinuites hispanicus Sinuites meignannensis Sinuites minutus Sinuites nanus Sinuites naviculoides Sinuites niger Sinuites nitens Sinuites obesa Sinuites pervoluta Sinuites planodorsatus Sinuites pseudocompressus Sinuites pusgillensis Sinuites quadratus Sinuites rectangularis Sinuites reticulatus Sinuites rotundata Sinuites rugulosus Sinuites semirugosus Sinuites separatus Sinuites soudleyensis Sinuites sowerbyi Sinuites subcompressa Sinuites subrectangularis Sinuites usitatus Sinuites vetustus
Type: Bellerophon bilobatus
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Dobrotivian of the Czech Republic (1 collection), France (3), Spain (5)
• Uhaku of Norway (1)
• Fennian of France (1)
• Arenig of France (2)
• Ordovician of Canada (51: Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (1), the Czech Republic (7), Estonia (8), France (3), Germany (2), Iran (1), Morocco (5), Norway (16), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (8), Sweden (8), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (25), United States (136: Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin)
Total: 287 collections including 322 occurrences
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