Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Full reference: J. B. Knight. 1945. Some new genera of the Bellerophontacea. Journal of Paleontology 19:333-340
Parent taxon: Tropidodiscidae according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Ebbestad and Yochelson 2000, Knight et al. 1960, Sepkoski 2002, Starobogatov 1970 and Wahlman 1992
Sister taxa: Groomodiscus, Kosorodiscus, Neimongolidiscus, Nylanderina, Spirilira, Temnodiscinae, Tropidodiscus, Vorticina, Westraliadiscus, Zonidiscus
Subtaxa: Sinuitina (Globosinuitina) Sinuitina (Sinuitina) Sinuitina acutilira Sinuitina brevilineatus Sinuitina cordiformis Sinuitina duchastelii Sinuitina gratiosus Sinuitina hyalina Sinuitina matuta Sinuitina morzadeci Sinuitina multirugatus Sinuitina nudidorsa Sinuitina oldhami Sinuitina parva Sinuitina planilata Sinuitina portulacoides Sinuitina punjabica Sinuitina slavinka Sinuitina spinari
Type: Tropidocyclus cordiformis
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Permian of China (1 collection), Pakistan (11)
• Carboniferous of Australia (10), Belgium (2), China (1), United States (12: Indiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Givetian of France (2)
• Devonian of Canada (1: Quebec), the Czech Republic (3), Morocco (3), United States (9: New York)
• Silurian of Australia (1)
• Ordovician of Norway (1)
Total: 57 collections each including a single occurrence
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