†family Stropheodontidae Caster 1939 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Stropheodontidae

Parent taxon: Stropheodontoidea according to J. Jin and B. D. E. Chatterton 1997

See also Boucot 1960, Boucot and Johnson 1964, Congreve et al. 2015, Isaacson et al. 1976, Mitchell 1977, Talent 1963 and Williams et al. 2000

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Brachyprioninae Leptostrophiinae Stropheodontinae

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Devonian of Australia (8 collections), Belgium (2), Canada (3: Nunavut, Ontario, Yukon), China (4), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (5: Nevada, New York)

• Silurian of Argentina (1), Australia (2), China (2), Mexico (6), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: California, Iowa)

• Ordovician of the United Kingdom (4)

Total: 45 collections including 47 occurrences

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