Bivalvia - Nuculida - Cardiolariidae
Synonym: Praeleda Pfab 1934
Full reference: A. Fuchs. 1919. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Devonfauna der Verse- und Hobräcker Schichten des sauerlandischen Faciesgebietes. Jahrbuch des Preussischen Geologisches Landesanstalt 29(1):58-95
Parent taxon: Cardiolariidae according to J. C. W. Cope 1997
See also Cox et al. 1969, Harrison and Harrison 1975, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Cardiolaria, Inaequidens
Subtaxa: Deceptrix banksi Deceptrix carinata Deceptrix scofieldi Praeleda compar
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Argentina (1 collection), Australia (2)
• Silurian of Argentina (3), United States (1: Ohio)
• Ordovician of Australia (3), Canada (1: Ontario), China (2), the Czech Republic (7), France (2), Norway (2), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (3), United States (49: Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio, Tennessee)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Minnesota)
Total: 80 collections including 87 occurrences
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