†superfamily Craniopsioidea Williams 1963 (lamp shell)

Craniata - Craniopsida

Parent taxon: Craniopsida according to A. Williams et al. 2000

Sister taxon: Craniopsoidea

Subtaxa: Craniopsidae

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of Canada (1: Alberta collection)

• Devonian of Argentina (1), Australia (5), Brazil (6), Canada (3: New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec), China (1), Colombia (1), United States (51: Indiana, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia)

• Jaani of Estonia (2), Lithuania (2)

• Silurian of Australia (2), Brazil (1), Canada (10: Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec), China (9), the Czech Republic (3), Estonia (3), Ireland (1), Latvia (2), Lithuania (25), Mexico (5), Norway (3), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (5), the United Kingdom (79), United States (38: California, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan and Ohio, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee)

• Ordovician of Canada (20: Ontario, Quebec), China (8), the Czech Republic (2), Estonia (9), Kazakhstan (6), Myanmar (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (3), the United Kingdom (38), United States (53: Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia)

• Cambrian of Greenland (2)

Total: 406 collections including 412 occurrences

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