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
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