†family Hyolithellidae Walcott 1886

Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae

Full reference: C. D. Walcott. 1886. Second contribution to the studies on the Cambrian faunas of North America. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 30:1-365

Parent taxon: Hyolithelminthida according to A. Kouchinsky et al. 2017

See also Fisher 1962, Landing et al. 2008, Parkhaev and Demidenko 2010 and Skovsted 2006

Sister taxa: Beklemishevites, Byronia, Ivanovites, Koksuja, Phosphannulus, Thorslundella, Torellellidae, Torellelloides

Subtaxa: Barella Hexagonellus Hyolithellus Pseudorthotheca

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Type: Hyolithellus

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Amgan of Kyrgyzstan (1 collection)

• Delamaran of Canada (2: British Columbia), United States (1: Virginia)

• Caerfai of United States (1: New York)

• Waucoban of United States (1: Washington)

• Cambrian of Antarctica (1), Australia (33), Canada (19: British Columbia, Labrador, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Quebec), China (55), France (2), Greenland (40), India (1), Iran (2), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (22), Kyrgyzstan (4), Mexico (5), Mongolia (5), Morocco (3), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (51), 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)

Total: 294 collections including 387 occurrences

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