Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Productorthidae
Full reference: F. R. C. Reed. 1917. The Ordovician and Silurian Brachiopoda of the Girvan District. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 51(4):795-998
Parent taxon: Productorthinae according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Alikhova 1953, Mitchell 1977, Oraspold 1956, Oraspold 1959, Rubel 1961, Sepkoski 2002 and Wright 1964
Sister taxa: Ferrax, Panderina, Productorthis, Saucrorthis
Subtaxa: Nicolella actoniae Nicolella alliku Nicolella crabbi Nicolella oswaldi Nicolella patens Nicolella pterygoidea Nicolella strasburgensis Nicolella sylvatica
Type: Orthis actoniae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Dobrotivian of France (2 collections)
• Uhaku of Latvia (1), Lithuania (1), Sweden (2)
• Aluoja of Estonia (1)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: California)
• Valaste of Estonia (18), Haiti (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Ordovician of Belarus (2), Belgium (5), China (11), Estonia (43), France (3), Ireland (8), Latvia (13), Lithuania (28), Myanmar (2), Norway (23), Portugal (2), the Russian Federation (11), Spain (3), Sweden (7), the United Kingdom (35)
Total: 224 collections including 230 occurrences
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