†superfamily Clitambonitoidea Winchell and Schuchert 1893 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Billingsellida

Parent taxon: Clitambonitidina according to M. Liljeroth et al. 2017

See also Benedetto 2003, Williams et al. 2000 and Zuykov and Hints 2002

Sister taxa: Clitambonitacea, Gonambonitacea, Polytoechioidea

Subtaxa: Arctohedridae Clitambonitidae Gonambonitidae

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (3: Québec collections)

• Ordovician of Australia (1), Belarus (4), Belgium (8), Canada (26: Newfoundland, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (15), Estonia (159), Haiti (1), Iran (1), Ireland (6), Latvia (3), Lithuania (6), Norway (8), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (192), Sweden (8), the United Kingdom (31), United States (22: Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia)

• Llandeilo of Mongolia (1)

• Chazy of United States (7: Alabama, New York)

• Whiterockian of United States (4: Nevada)

• Arenig of Argentina (1), China (1), the United Kingdom (2)

• Dawan of China (1)

• Cambrian of Australia (2), Kyrgyzstan (2), United States (1: Alaska)

Total: 517 collections including 672 occurrences

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