Spinatrypa Stainbrook 1951 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Atrypidae

Parent taxon: Spinatrypinae according to A. Williams et al. 2002

See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Jones 1982, Savage and Baxter 1995 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Catatrypa, Eospinatrypa, Invertrypa, Isospinatrypa, Oglu, Punctspinatrypa, Spinatrypina

Subtaxa: Spinatrypa perflabellata Spinatrypa spinosa Spinatrypa undosa

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Carboniferous to Permian of China (1 collection)

• Carboniferous of United States (1: illinois)

• Givetian of United States (1: Missouri)

• Devonian of Afghanistan (7), Australia (8), Austria (1), Belgium (12), Canada (89: Alberta, British columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (14), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (2), France (20), Germany (9), Iran (2), Poland (5), the Russian Federation (26), Spain (4), Tajikistan (1), United States (222: Alaska, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin), Venezuela (1), Vietnam (4)

• Silurian of Canada (2: Northwest Territories), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (8), United States (1: California)

Total: 443 collections including 492 occurrences

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