Cupitheca Duan, 1984

Sun, Haijing, Malinky, John M., Zhu, Maoyan & Huang, Diying, 2018, Palaeobiology of orthothecide hyoliths from the Cambrian Manto Formation of Hebei Province, North China, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 63 (1), pp. 87-101 : 92

Genus Cupitheca Duan in Xing et al., 1984

Type species: Cupitheca brevituba Duan in Xing et al., 1984, lower Cambrian, South China .

Diagnosis. —See Bengtson et al. (1990: 203).

Remarks.—For detailed discussion and taxonomic history see Malinky and Skovsted (2004: 568–569), Pan et al. (2015: 388) and Skovsted et al. (2016: 125).

Stratigraphic and geographic range.—Cambrian; Terreneuvian Fortunian to Series 3 Stage 5; since the biostratigraphic correlation of “Lower Limestone” (= Maseong Formation) is not clear ( Lee 2008), the age of C. cf. mira reported by Lee (2008) should be questioned. Distributed in China ( Pan et al. 2015), Korea ( Lee 2008), Australia ( Kruse et al. 2004; Skovsted et al. 2016), Antarctica (Wrona 2003), Greenland Malinky and Skovsted 2004), Newfoundland ( Skovsted and Peel 2007), Spain ( Jensen et al. 2010), India ( Gilbert et al. 2016; Hughes 2016), possibly Kazakhstan and England Malinky and Skovsted 2004; see also SOM 2).