†subfamily Glyptomeninae Williams 1965 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Glyptomenidae

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

See also Cocks 2010, Mitchell 1977 and Williams et al. 2000

Sister taxa: Cheramomena, Glyptomenoides, Lateriseptomena, Minutomena, Paromalomena, Teratelasminae

Subtaxa: Avdeevella Buminomena Bystromena Glyptomena Hesperinia Linostrophomena Mjoesina Pionomena Platymena Pomeromena Primotimena Proboscisambon Qianomena Resupinsculpta

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Silurian of China (7 collections), Czechia (1)

• Uhaku of the Russian Federation (1)

• Whiterockian of United States (1: Nevada)

• Chazyan of Canada (2: Quebec), United States (18: Maryland, New York, Tennessee, Virginia)

• Arenig of China (1)

• Ordovician of Argentina (1), Australia (4), Canada (6: Ontario, Quebec), China (13), Czechia (6), Estonia (5), Kazakhstan (13), Latvia (3), Myanmar (1), Norway (10), the Russian Federation (16), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (29), United States (21: Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Nevada, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia)

Total: 160 collections including 168 occurrences

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