Sinuites Koken, 1896

Ebbestad, Jan Ove R. & Cope, John C. W., 2021, A low diversity Sinuites gastropod community from the Floian, Early Ordovician, of South Wales, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66 (2), pp. 319-335 : 323

Genus Sinuites Koken, 1896

Type species: Bellerophon bilobatus Sowerby, 1839: 643 , pl. 19: 13, by subsequent designation of Bassler (1915: 1159); from the Caradoc (Sandbian, Sa2, Upper Ordovician), Horderley Sandstone Formation at Horderley, Shropshire, England, UK.

Remarks.— Sinuites is an often cited taxon from Ordovician deposits world­wide, although it likely embraces a number of sinuitid­like taxa (see discussion in Ebbestad and Yochelson 2000). Horný (1996) suggested that Sinuites could have been an active semi­infaunal predator living on a soft substrate. The genus is reported from a number of facies but it may be more common in deep subtidal siliciclastic environments ( Hurst 1979; Wahlman 1992; Horný and Vonka 2002; Stewart 2012; Ebbestad et al. 2013).