Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Pentameridae
Full reference: F. M'Coy. 1844. A synopsis of the characters of the Carboniferous limestone fossils of Ireland. 1-207
Parent taxon: Pentameroidea according to A. Williams et al. 2002
See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Jin and Chatterton 1997, Talent 1963 and Temple 1987
Sister taxa: Conchidiidae, Subrianidae, Virgianidae, Stricklandiniidae
Subtaxa: Bisulcata Brooksina Capelliniella Eokirkidium Eopentamerus Harpidium Jolvia Kirkidium Lissocoelina Nanukidium Pentamerifera Pentamerinae Pentameroides Pentameroidinae Pentamerus Rhipidium Stenopentamerus Twenhofelia
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Givetian of France (4 collections)
• Devonian of Australia (2), Canada (1: Yukon), Germany (1), Italy (1), Morocco (1)
• Niagaran of Canada (1: Québec), United States (2: Indiana, Ohio)
• Silurian of Australia (4), Belarus (1), Canada (159: British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon Territory), China (16), Czechia (6), Estonia (25), Greenland (2), India (1), Iran (1), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (2), Latvia (1), Lithuania (8), Mexico (1), Mongolia (4), Norway (2), the Russian Federation (20), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Sweden (14), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (13), United States (123: Alaska, California, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Utah, Wisconsin)
Total: 421 collections including 499 occurrences