†family Anoplothecidae Schuchert 1894 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Anoplothecidae

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

See also Bassett and Cocks 1974

Sister taxa: Kayseriidae, Neocoelia

Subtaxa: Anoplothecinae Coelospirinae

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Type: Anoplotheca

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Givetian of France (3 collections)

• Devonian of Argentina (2), Australia (10), Brazil (2), Canada (15: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), China (4), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (6), France (5), Germany (15), Kazakhstan (1), Morocco (1), Poland (2), South Africa (2), Spain (3), Ukraine (1), United States (70: Maryland, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee)

• Silurian to Devonian of Argentina (1), Pakistan (1), United States (1: Oklahoma)

• Silurian of Argentina (4), Australia (5), Canada (10: Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (2), the Czech Republic (4), Greenland (2), Lithuania (1), Sweden (4), Ukraine (1), United States (104: Alaska, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Virginia), Venezuela (1)

Total: 284 collections including 296 occurrences

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