Bivalvia - Unioni - Lyrodesmatidae
Parent taxon: Lyrodesmatidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Harrison and Harrison 1975 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Brachilyrodesma, Lyronucula, Noradonta, Pseudaxinus, Siliquarca, Tanaodon, Tromelinodonta
Subtaxa: Lyrodesma huguesensis Lyrodesma major Lyrodesma planum Lyrodesma postplanum Lyrodesma poststriatum Lyrodesma truyolsi
Type: Lyrodesma planum
Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Poland (1 collection)
• Silurian of the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Ohio)
• Dobrotivian of France (1), Spain (2)
• Arenig of the United Kingdom (1)
• Ordovician of Canada (11: British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), the United Kingdom (2), United States (45: Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, Tennessee, Virginia)
Total: 66 collections including 69 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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