†family Anopliidae Muir-Wood 1962 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Anopliidae

Parent taxon: Chonetoidea according to A. Williams et al. 2000

See also Boucot et al. 2008, Isaacson and Dutro 1999, Jin and Chatterton 1997 and Shen et al. 2003

Sister taxa: Chonetidae, Chonostrophiidae, Daviesiellidae, Eodevonariidae, Ogorella, Rugosochonetidae, Strophochonetidae, Strophochonetinae

Subtaxa: Airtoniinae Anopliinae Caenanopliinae Davoustica Holynetinae Klocinetes Semicaplinoplia

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of the Russian Federation (1 collection)

• Permian of Australia (18), Canada (3: Yukon), China (9), India (2), Mongolia (2), Myanmar (4), Nepal (4), Pakistan (16), the Russian Federation (34), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (11), Tajikistan (5), Thailand (22), United States (2: Alaska, Oregon)

• Virgilian of United States (1: Maryland)

• Desmoinesian of United States (1: Kansas)

• Westphalian of Spain (1)

• Pennsylvanian of China (2)

• Namurian of Australia (1), Thailand (1)

• Carboniferous of Argentina (1), Australia (13), Canada (6: Alberta), the Czech Republic (2), Ghana (1), Ireland (3), Libya (12), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (7), United States (33: Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah)

• Mississippian of Argentina (1), the United Kingdom (1)

• Devonian of Afghanistan (2), Argentina (3), Australia (4), Brazil (2), China (1), the Czech Republic (10), France (38), Germany (11), Mauritania (4), Myanmar (2), Poland (11), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (5), Thailand (1), United States (109: Maine, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1), Venezuela (1)

• Silurian of Canada (1: Québec)

• Ordovician of Ireland (1), Sweden (4), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 438 collections including 459 occurrences

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