Strophonella Hall 1879 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophonellidae

Synonyms: Costistrophonella, Strophoprion Twenhofel 1914

Parent taxon: Strophonellidae according to P. Musteikis and L. R. M. Cocks 2004

See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Sepkoski 2002 and Williams et al. 2000

Sister taxa: Chronostrophonella, Eostrophonella

Subtaxa: Strophonella (Quasistrophonella) Strophonella (Strophonella) Strophonella alterniradiata Strophonella bohemica Strophonella extensa Strophonella gippslandica Strophonella laxiplicata Strophonella loeblichi Strophonella patenta Strophonella punctulifera Strophonella semifasciata Strophoprion euglypha Strophoprion geniculatum

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Type: Strophomena semifasciata

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Devonian of Australia (5 collections), Canada (9: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Yukon), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (5), Kazakhstan (2), Turkey (1), Ukraine (2), United States (55: Iowa, Maryland, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania)

• Jaani of Estonia (1), Lithuania (2)

• Niagaran of Canada (2: Québec), United States (1: Indiana)

• Silurian to Devonian of United States (1: Oklahoma)

• Silurian of Australia (3), Belarus (3), Canada (17: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (1), the Czech Republic (11), Estonia (1), Kazakhstan (1), Latvia (1), Lithuania (3), Mexico (9), Mongolia (1), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (5), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (22), United States (53: Alaska, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah), Venezuela (1)

• Ordovician of China (1)

Total: 225 collections including 245 occurrences

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