Cyclora

Classification
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Euomphalina
Family: Holopeidae
Genus: Cyclora Hall, 1845
Cincinnatian Species: Cyclora depressa

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Synonyms: Cyclonema Knight, 1941 & Knight et al., 1960
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Geologic Range
Late Ordovician

Common Paleoecology
Cyclora is an extinct genus of stationary epifaunal suspension feeders

Identification in Hand Sample:

Minute umbilicus
Circular aperture
Smooth columella
Thin, subglobular shell
Short spire
Few whorls

Geographic Occurrences

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Holland (UGA Strat Lab, 2013):

Cyclora may be a junior synonym of Cyclonema as it may be the juvenile part of the shell

Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part I, Mollusca 1 (1960):

Very minute, naticiform. [Probably based on steinkerns of protoconchs of some other genus, possibly Cyclonema; Locally very abundant]

Miller (1874) :

Shell minute, smooth, consisting of few whorls; aperture circular. Prof. Meek suggests that this genus probably belongs to the family Rissoidae.

Hall (1845) :

Subglobose, shell thin, spire short, consisting of a few whorls; columella smooth, slightly reflected over a minute umbilicus, aperture circular.

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