†superfamily Rhynchospirinoidea Schuchert 1929 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Athyridida

Parent taxon: Retziidina according to A. Williams et al. 2002

Sister taxa: Mongolospiroidea, Retzioidea

Subtaxa: Parazygidae Rhynchospirinidae

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Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Devonian of Austria (2 collections), Canada (5: Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), China (1), Czechia (5), Italy (4), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (4), Tajikistan (1), Ukraine (2), United States (91: California, Colorado, Indiana, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania)

• Whitwellian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories)

• Silurian to Devonian of Canada (1: Nova Scotia), Poland (1), United States (1: Oklahoma)

• Silurian of Argentina (4), Belarus (3), Canada (7: Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Yukon, Yukon Territory), Estonia (13), Latvia (2), Lithuania (14), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (10), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (8), United States (72: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia), Venezuela (1)

• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (7: British Columbia)

• Ordovician of United States (1: Missouri)

Total: 271 collections including 304 occurrences

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