Lingulata - Lingulida - Paterulidae
Parent taxon: Paterulidae according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Holmer 1986, Mitchell 1977, Sepkoski 2002 and Wright 1963
Sister taxon: Diencobolus
Subtaxa: Paterula balclatchiensis Paterula bohemica Paterula holynensis Paterula numerosa Paterula perfecta Paterula polita Paterula subcircularis
Type: Paterula bohemica
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of the Czech Republic (1 collection), Tajikistan (1), Thailand (1)
• Silurian of Australia (2), Canada (1: Nunavut), the Czech Republic (1)
• Dobrotivian of the Czech Republic (2)
• Uhaku of Sweden (5)
• Liben of the Czech Republic (1)
• Chazyan of United States (4: Alabama, Oklahoma, Tennessee)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Nevada)
• Volkhov of Estonia (4)
• Arenig of the United Kingdom (2)
• Ordovician of Australia (13), Canada (1: Newfoundland and Labrador), China (1), the Czech Republic (9), Estonia (8), Iran (2), Ireland (1), Kazakhstan (1), Latvia (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (3), Sweden (30), the United Kingdom (27), United States (2: New York, Tennessee)
• Tremadoc of United States (1: New York)
Total: 127 collections including 129 occurrences
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