†subfamily Protochonetinae Racheboeuf 2000 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophochonetidae

Parent taxon: Strophochonetidae according to M. Rubel 2011

See also Williams et al. 2000

Sister taxon: Parachonetinae

Subtaxa: Eoplicanoplia Hypselonetes Nabarredia Protochonetes Shagamella

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Devonian of Australia (16 collections), Belarus (1), Canada (1: Quebec), China (7), the Czech Republic (2), the Russian Federation (1)

• Whitwellian of Canada (1: Northwest Territories)

• Jaani of Lithuania (1)

• Silurian to Devonian of Australia (1), Canada (1: Nova Scotia)

• Silurian of Argentina (3), Australia (5), Belarus (5), Bolivia (1), Brazil (1), Canada (35: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Québec), China (1), the Czech Republic (4), Estonia (21), Iran (1), Ireland (2), Latvia (3), Lithuania (34), Norway (2), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (2), Sweden (7), Ukraine (17), the United Kingdom (81), United States (5: Indiana, Nevada), Venezuela (1)

Total: 267 collections including 298 occurrences

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