Cyrtothyris Middlemiss 1959 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae

Full reference: F. A. Middlemiss. 1959. English Aptian Terebratulidae. Palaeontology 2(1):94-142

Parent taxon: Rectithyridinae according to A. Williams et al. 2006

See also Cooper 1993 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Collinithyris, Moutonithyris, Neoliothyrina, Praelongithyris, Rectithyris, Rhombothyris, Tropeothyris

Subtaxa: Cyrtothyris cantabridgiensis Cyrtothyris cyrta Cyrtothyris dallasi Cyrtothyris maynci Cyrtothyris middlemissi Cyrtothyris ndumuensis Cyrtothyris seeleyi Cyrtothyris undisona Cyrtothyris uniplicata

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Type: Terebratula depressa cyrta

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of France (1 collection), Germany (1), Greenland (1), Kazakhstan (1), Morocco (3), South Africa (2), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Switzerland (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (21)

• Jurassic of Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2)

Total: 38 collections including 61 occurrences

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