†family Strophonellidae Caster 1939 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophonellidae

Parent taxon: Strophomenoidea according to C. R. Congreve et al. 2015

See also Musteikis and Cocks 2004 and Williams et al. 2000

Sister taxa: Amphistrophiidae, Dicoelostrophiidae, Douvillinidae, Douvinella, Eopholidostrophiidae, Foliomenidae, Furcitellidae, Glyptomenidae, Idioglyptus, Leptaenoideidae, Leptodontellidae, Leptostrophiidae, Playfairia, Rafinesquinidae, Rhenostrophia, Shaleriidae, Strophomenidae, Strophomenidea, Syntrophodonta

Subtaxa: Chronostrophonella Eostrophonella Strophonella

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Devonian of Australia (5 collections), Canada (9: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Yukon), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (4), Kazakhstan (2), Turkey (1), Ukraine (2), United States (55: Iowa, Maryland, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania)

• Silurian to Devonian of United States (1: Oklahoma)

• Niagaran of Canada (2: Québec), United States (1: Indiana)

• Silurian of Australia (3), Belarus (3), Canada (20: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (1), the Czech Republic (11), Estonia (2), Kazakhstan (1), Latvia (1), Lithuania (5), Mexico (9), Mongolia (1), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (5), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (36), United States (53: Alaska, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah), Venezuela (1)

• Ordovician of Canada (8: Manitoba, Quebec), China (1), Mongolia (2), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 252 collections including 272 occurrences

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