†superfamily Triplesioidea Schuchert 1913 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Orthotetida

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

See also Hints et al. 2013, Jin and Chatterton 1997, Rubel 2011 and Williams et al. 2000

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Triplesiidae

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Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Jaani of Estonia (6 collections), Lithuania (3)

• Silurian of Belarus (1), Canada (30: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Québec), China (1), the Czech Republic (7), Estonia (15), Greenland (1), Lithuania (7), Norway (1), Sweden (8), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (45), United States (21: Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Wisconsin)

• Dobrotivian of France (2), Spain (1)

• Letna of the Czech Republic (1)

• Chazyan of Canada (5: Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Quebec), United States (47: Alabama, New York, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia)

• Whiterockian of United States (7: Arkansas, Maryland, Nevada, Pennsylvannia, Virginia)

• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (6: Québec)

• Ordovician of Argentina (4), Australia (3), Belgium (16), Canada (21: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (43), the Czech Republic (8), Estonia (30), France (3), Ireland (6), Kazakhstan (22), Latvia (33), Lithuania (4), Mongolia (1), Morocco (1), Myanmar (1), New Zealand (1), Norway (27), Peru (2), Portugal (5), the Russian Federation (28), Spain (7), Sweden (21), Thailand (1), the United Kingdom (124), United States (57: Georgia, Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia), Venezuela (1)

Total: 688 collections including 789 occurrences

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