Lingulata - Lingulida - Discinidae
Alternative spellings: Discina (Orbiculoidea), Orbiculoides
Parent taxon: Discinidae according to M. Masunaga and Y. Shiino 2021
See also Hoare 1961, Holmer 1987, Holmer 1989, Jillson 1919, Mitchell 1977, Owen and Harper 1982, Sepkoski 2002, Troedsson 1918, Williams et al. 2000 and Wright 1963
Sister taxa: Acrosaccus, Chynithele, Discradisca, Gigadiscina, Opatrilkiella, Orbiculoideinae, Roemerella, Schizotreta
Subtaxa: Orbiculoidea affinis Orbiculoidea anhuiensis Orbiculoidea armstrongi Orbiculoidea batesvillensis Orbiculoidea capax Orbiculoidea capuliformis Orbiculoidea cincta Orbiculoidea clintonensis Orbiculoidea concentrica Orbiculoidea damanensis Orbiculoidea elegans Orbiculoidea excentrica Orbiculoidea excentrica Orbiculoidea forbesa Orbiculoidea gibba Orbiculoidea interlineata Orbiculoidea jangarensis Orbiculoidea keokuk Orbiculoidea kolymaensis Orbiculoidea konincki Orbiculoidea kullsbergensis Orbiculoidea liaoi Orbiculoidea linguliformis Orbiculoidea magna Orbiculoidea minuta Orbiculoidea missouriensis Orbiculoidea nucleola Orbiculoidea ovalis Orbiculoidea pileolus Orbiculoidea platymitraformis Orbiculoidea prietana Orbiculoidea qieermaensis Orbiculoidea qinglongensis Orbiculoidea radiata Orbiculoidea rotularia Orbiculoidea sampsoni Orbiculoidea semipolita Orbiculoidea shallochensis Orbiculoidea sibirica Orbiculoidea sodalis Orbiculoidea soyanensis Orbiculoidea spitzbergensis Orbiculoidea stincharensis Orbiculoidea taskrestensis Orbiculoidea tobaensis Orbiculoidea utahensis Orbiculoidea varsoviensis Orbiculoidea verum Orbiculoidea warthi Orbiculoidea winsnesi Orbiculoidea wisnesi Orbiculoidea wyomingensis Orbiculoidea xinguensis Orbiculoidea yangkangensis
Type: Orbicula forbesi
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Greenland (1 collection)
• Jurassic of Canada (3: British Columbia, Yukon), France (2), Germany (2), Greenland (27), United States (1: California)
• Triassic of Canada (4: British Columbia), China (10), Germany (1), Greenland (5), Japan (1), Pakistan (3), the Russian Federation (20), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: Idaho)
• Permian of Australia (3), Bolivia (8), Canada (2: Nunavut, Yukon), China (33), Greenland (1), Italy (1), Japan (6), Lithuania (2), Mexico (7), Mongolia (1), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (2), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (22), the United Kingdom (6), United States (51: Alaska, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (6), Australia (5), Belgium (1), Belize (2), Bolivia (2), Canada (2: Alberta, Northwest Territories), the Czech Republic (2), Germany (4), Ireland (2), Peru (4), Spain (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (45), United States (147: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Iowa/Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Devonian of Antarctica (5), Australia (1), Bolivia (1), Brazil (37), Canada (19: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories and Yukon, Nunavut, Quebec), China (10), the Czech Republic (10), France (4), Germany (4), Libya (2), Mauritania (2), New Zealand (1), Poland (5), South Africa (8), the United Kingdom (1), United States (87: Alaska, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin), Uruguay (1), Vietnam (2)
• Silurian to Devonian of Poland (1)
• Silurian of Australia (5), Brazil (1), Canada (3: Nova Scotia), China (2), the Czech Republic (5), Latvia (1), Lithuania (11), Mexico (1), Norway (2), Poland (2), Sweden (7), the United Kingdom (36), United States (22: Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Wisconsin)
• Letna of the Czech Republic (1)
• Dawan of China (1)
• Arenig of China (3)
• Ordovician to Silurian of South Africa (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (1), Australia (2), Bolivia (1), Canada (1: Ontario), China (21), the Czech Republic (3), Estonia (1), Ireland (1), Norway (5), Poland (1), South Africa (1), Sweden (13), the United Kingdom (13), United States (33: Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia)
Total: 859 collections including 915 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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