†family Glyptomenidae Williams 1965 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Glyptomenidae

Parent taxon: Strophomenoidea according to L. Hints and D. A. T. Harper 2015

See also Cocks 2005, Cocks 2010, Williams et al. 2000 and Zhan et al. 2008

Sister taxa: Amphistrophiidae, Dicoelostrophiidae, Douvillinidae, Douvinella, Eopholidostrophiidae, Foliomenidae, Furcitellidae, Idioglyptus, Leptaenoideidae, Leptodontellidae, Leptostrophiidae, Playfairia, Rafinesquinidae, Rhenostrophia, Shaleriidae, Strophomenidae, Strophomenidea, Strophonellidae, Syntrophodonta

Subtaxa: Cheramomena Glyptomeninae Glyptomenoides Lateriseptomena Minutomena Teratelasminae

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Type: Glyptomena

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Silurian of China (7 collections), the Czech Republic (1)

• Ordovician of Argentina (4), Australia (6), Canada (8: Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (34), the Czech Republic (7), Estonia (7), Kazakhstan (23), Latvia (8), Myanmar (2), Norway (11), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (17), Spain (1), Sweden (3), Thailand (1), the United Kingdom (30), United States (26: Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Nevada, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia)

• Chazy of United States (14: New York)

• Llandeilo of the United Kingdom (3)

• Whiterockian of United States (1: Nevada)

• Arenig of China (1)

Total: 217 collections including 239 occurrences

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