Bivalvia - Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
Full reference: L. Beushausen. 1895. Die Lamellibranchiaten des rheinischen Devon mit Ausschluss der Aviculiden. Abhandlungen der Königlich Preussichen geologischen Landesanstalt. 17:1-410
Parent taxon: Ctenodontidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Alococoncha, Ctenodonta, Ditichia, Kazachia, Kufralaria, Mesoneilo, Praectenodonta, Sibiroctenia, Tellinopsis
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of New Zealand (1 collection), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Nevada)
• Silurian of Canada (2: Nova Scotia, Québec), Sweden (3)
• Dobrotivian of Portugal (3), Spain (1)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Nevada)
• Ordovician of Canada (5: Ontario, Quebec), China (1), Norway (2), Spain (2), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (16: Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Virginia, Wisconsin)
Total: 42 collections including 45 occurrences
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