Bivalvia - Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Full reference: E. Billings. 1858. The Black River fauna. Canadian Geological Survey Report of Progress 1857:147-192
Parent taxon: Cyrtodontidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Isberg 1934, Raymond 1916, Sepkoski 2002 and Soot-Ryen and Soot-Ryen 1960
Sister taxa: Cyrtodonta, Cyrtodontinae, Cyrtodontula, Daliella, Dickinsartella, Heikea, Macrodesma, Matheria, Ortonella, Pharcidoconcha, Ptychodesmatinae, Sowteria, Thorslundia, Vigorniella, Warburgia, Yonginella
Subtaxa: Vanuxemia bayfieldi Vanuxemia bulla Vanuxemia decipiens Vanuxemia inconstans Vanuxemia kagawongensis Vanuxemia limbata Vanuxemia odhneri Vanuxemia waynesvillensis
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Minnesota collection)
• Chazyan of United States (2: New York)
• Ordovician of Canada (12: British Columbia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), Norway (1), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (56: Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa)
Total: 76 collections including 82 occurrences
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