Epitomyonia Wright 1968 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dicoelosiidae

Full reference: A. D. Wright. 1968. A new genus of dicoelosiid brachiopod from Dalarna. Arkiv for Zoologi 22:127-138

Parent taxon: Dicoelosiidae according to M. Rubel 2011

See also Jin and Chatterton 1997, Sepkoski 2002, Williams et al. 2000 and Zhang and Boucot 1988

Sister taxa: Dicoelosia, Teichertina

Subtaxa: Epitomyonia amplissima Epitomyonia clausula Epitomyonia glypha Epitomyonia pachytriseptata Epitomyonia paucitropida Epitomyonia relicina Epitomyonia schwiensis Epitomyonia sekwiensis Epitomyonia triseptata

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Type: Epitomyonia glypha

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Whitwellian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories collections)

• Silurian of Canada (16: Northwest Territories, Nunavut), China (9), Estonia (6), Iran (1), Norway (2), the United Kingdom (1)

• Ordovician of Canada (9: Northwest Territories, Québec, Yukon), China (2), the Czech Republic (4), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (1), Latvia (1), Norway (3), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (7: Alaska, California)

Total: 72 collections including 80 occurrences

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