Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Parent taxon: Sowerbyellinae according to L. Hints and D. A. T. Harper 2015
See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Cocks 2005, Cocks 2010, Jin and Chatterton 1997, Mitchell 1977, Musteikis and Cocks 2004, Rubel 2011, Sepkoski 2002 and Williams et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Anisopleurella, Dubioleptina, Eochonetes, Gunningblandella, Plectodonta, Sowerbyella
Subtaxa: Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) Eoplectodonta (Ygerodiscus) Eoplectodonta acuminata Eoplectodonta bidecorata Eoplectodonta budgei Eoplectodonta california Eoplectodonta duvalii Eoplectodonta moelsi Eoplectodonta nesnakomkaensis Eoplectodonta oscitanda Eoplectodonta penkillensis Eoplectodonta percedens Eoplectodonta praecursor Eoplectodonta precursor
Type: Sowerbyella praecursor
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Whitwellian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories collections)
• Jaani of Estonia (10), Lithuania (7)
• Niagaran of Canada (1: Québec)
• Silurian of Argentina (1), Belarus (1), Canada (57: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (2), the Czech Republic (5), Estonia (26), Iran (1), Kazakhstan (1), Lithuania (32), Norway (46), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (14), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (154), United States (77: California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Nevada, New York, Tennessee, Wisconsin)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (2: Québec), Norway (1)
• Ordovician of Canada (14: British Columbia, Quebec, Québec), China (3), Estonia (12), Kazakhstan (1), Latvia (6), Lithuania (9), Mongolia (1), New Zealand (1), Norway (38), the Russian Federation (6), Spain (1), Sweden (7), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (52), United States (29: Alaska, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Virginia)
Total: 625 collections including 671 occurrences
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