†subfamily Plectatrypinae Copper 1996 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Atrypinidae

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

See also Copper 1996

Sister taxa: Atrypininae, Clintonellinae, Spirigerininae

Subtaxa: Plectatrypa Sypharatrypa Xanthea

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Type: Plectatrypa

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Devonian of United States (2: Nevada collections)

• Whitwellian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories)

• Jaani of Estonia (3)

• Niagaran of United States (1: Indiana)

• Silurian of Australia (2), Canada (16: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Québec), China (2), Czechia (2), Estonia (3), Lithuania (2), Mongolia (2), Norway (3), the Russian Federation (10), Sweden (23), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (50), United States (46: Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Nevada, New York, Wisconsin), Venezuela (1)

• Ordovician of Argentina (2), China (7), Lithuania (2), the Russian Federation (4), the United Kingdom (6)

Total: 193 collections including 208 occurrences

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