Bivalvia - Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Synonym: Whitella Ulrich 1890 [objective synonym]
Full reference: J. R. B. Tomlin. 1931. Some preoccupied generic names. III. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 19:174-175
Parent taxon: Cyrtodontidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Isberg 1934, Pojeta 1971, Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977, Sepkoski 2002, Soot-Ryen and Soot-Ryen 1960 and Toni 1975
Sister taxa: Cyrtodonta, Cyrtodontinae, Daliella, Dickinsartella, Heikea, Macrodesma, Matheria, Ortonella, Pharcidoconcha, Ptychodesmatinae, Sowteria, Thorslundia, Vanuxemia, Vigorniella, Warburgia, Yonginella
Subtaxa: Cyrtodontula complanata Cyrtodontula compressa Cyrtodontula delacarlica Cyrtodontula dubia Cyrtodontula hadzeli Cyrtodontula obliquata Cyrtodontula sohli Cyrtodontula subtruncata Cyrtodontula truncata Cyrtodontula ventricosa Whitella acutiumbonis Whitella goniumbonata Whitella hindi Whitella huguesensis Whitella impressata Whitella lata Whitella parksi Whitella plebia Whitella radiata Whitella securiformis Whitella sigmoidea Whitella sterlingensis Whitella torontoensis
Type: Whitella obliquata
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of United States (2: Maryland collections)
• Silurian of Jordan (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (1), Australia (2), Canada (22: Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), Morocco (1), Norway (19), Spain (1), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (54: Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia)
Total: 106 collections including 115 occurrences
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