Fardenia Lamont 1935 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae

Parent taxon: Chilidiopsidae according to P. Musteikis and L. R. M. Cocks 2004

See also Boucot and Johnson 1964, Isaacson et al. 1976, Sepkoski 2002 and Williams et al. 2000

Sister taxa: Chilidiopsinae, Gacellinae, Saughina, Valdaria, Xystostrophia

Subtaxa: Fardenia (Coolinia) Fardenia (Fardenia) Fardenia comes Fardenia costatula Fardenia filistriata Fardenia flabellata Fardenia gwaliae Fardenia modica Fardenia oblectator Fardenia scalena Fardenia transversalis

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Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Silurian of Argentina (3 collections), Belarus (1), Canada (119: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (12), the Czech Republic (4), Estonia (37), Iran (1), Ireland (1), Lithuania (8), Mexico (6), Norway (11), the Russian Federation (15), Sweden (11), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (30), United States (93: California, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin), Venezuela (3)

• Ordovician of Argentina (1), Belgium (2), Canada (41: Quebec, Québec), China (21), the Czech Republic (4), Estonia (4), Latvia (2), Lithuania (1), Myanmar (1), Norway (3), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (11), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (12), United States (3: Missouri)

Total: 465 collections including 485 occurrences

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