Bivalvia - Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Full reference: J. Hall and R. P. Whitfield. 1869. Preliminary notice of the lamellibranchiate shells of the upper Helderberg, Hamilton and Chemung groups, with others from the Waverly sandstones, part 2. 1-80
Parent taxon: Grammysiidae according to J. Kříž 2008
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Andinodesma, Arenigomya, Asketomorpha, Cercomyopsis, Cuneamya, Cuneamyinae, Ectogrammysia, Fuchsella, Glyptoconcha, Grammysia, Grammysiinae, Leinzia, Sphenotus, Zaidiomysia, Protomya
Subtaxa: Cimitaria guangxiensis Cimitaria liscina
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Canada (1: Alberta collection)
• Devonian of Australia (1), Brazil (3), China (3), New Zealand (3), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (16: New York)
• Silurian of Canada (1: British Columbia), the Czech Republic (1)
Total: 31 collections including 33 occurrences
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