Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Alternative spellings: Fardenia (Schuchertella), Orthothetes (Schuchertella), Streptorhynchus (Schuchertella)
Parent taxon: Schuchertellinae according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Brunton and Champion 1974, Clarke 1908, Lawson 1955, Reed 1944 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Goniarina, Schuchertellopsis, Serratocrista, Teserina
Subtaxa: Schuchertella bassa Schuchertella beyrichi Schuchertella bowdenensis Schuchertella cooperi Schuchertella costatula Schuchertella fernglenensis Schuchertella fushuiensis Schuchertella gelaohoensis Schuchertella guizhouensis Schuchertella haraganensis Schuchertella humboldtensis Schuchertella lens Schuchertella luliangensis Schuchertella magna Schuchertella missouriensis Schuchertella nevadaensis Schuchertella percha Schuchertella probabilis Schuchertella propinqua Schuchertella quryatensis Schuchertella radialis Schuchertella resupinata Schuchertella rubra Schuchertella semiplana Schuchertella shenshuensis Schuchertella subvexa Schuchertella tapina Streptorhynchus (Schuchertella) asperulus Streptorhynchus (Schuchertella) praeceps
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (4 collections), China (18), Greece (6), Indonesia (4), Iran (6), Italy (2), Japan (3), Malaysia (1), Myanmar (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (27), Thailand (9), United States (5: Alaska, California, Nevada, Texas), Vietnam (1)
• Carboniferous to Permian of China (1), United States (4: California)
• Carboniferous of Australia (35), Canada (2: Alberta, Northwest Territories), Chile (1), China (4), the Czech Republic (1), Ireland (1), Italy (1), Libya (5), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (11), United States (94: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Iowa/Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (2), Australia (6), Belgium (13), Bolivia (29), Brazil (23), Canada (25: Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), China (9), France (1), Germany (13), Libya (3), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (2), United States (201: California, Colorado, Iowa, Maryland, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania), Uruguay (1)
• Niagaran of United States (1: Indiana)
• Silurian to Devonian of United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Australia (1), Canada (10: Northwest Territories, Yukon), Greenland (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (59: Alaska, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan and Ohio, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, Virginia, West Virginia)
• Ordovician of United States (4: Illinois, Ohio)
Total: 662 collections including 706 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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