Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Synonym: Qianjiangella
Parent taxon: Leptellininae according to M. Liljeroth et al. 2017
See also Jin and Chatterton 1997, Mitchell 1977, Percival et al. 2001, Sepkoski 2002, Williams et al. 2000 and Zhan et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Acculina, Bekkerella, Benignites, Dulankarella, Kajnaria, Kilbuchomena, Leptastichidia, Leptelloidea, Mabella, Reversella, Shlyginia
Subtaxa: Leptellina (Leptellina) Leptellina (Merciella) Leptellina llandeiloensis Leptellina seletensis Leptellina spatiosa Leptellina subquadrata Leptellina tennesseensis Leptellina transversa
Type: Leptellina tennesseensis
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Silurian of Canada (7: Northwest Territories collections), China (10), United States (2: Iowa)
• Uhaku of Sweden (3)
• Whiterockian of United States (11: Nevada)
• Chazyan of United States (4: Alabama, Tennessee)
• Arenig of Argentina (1), China (2)
• Dawan of China (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (2), Australia (12), China (19), Estonia (3), Iran (1), Ireland (3), Kazakhstan (9), Latvia (1), Mongolia (1), Myanmar (5), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (16), Sweden (2), the United Kingdom (20), United States (26: Alaska, California, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia), Vietnam (1)
• Ibexian of United States (1: Nevada)
Total: 164 collections including 170 occurrences
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