Artiopoda - Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Parent taxon: Raphiophoridae according to A. W. Owen and D. A. T. Harper 1982
See also Fortey 1975, Harrington and Leanza 1957, Jell and Adrain 2002, Owen 1981, Owen and Bruton 1980 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Ampyxina, Ellsaspis, Endymioniinae, Kanlingia, Malinaspis, Malongullia, Nambeetella, Nanshanaspis, Pseudampyxina, Raphioampyx, Raphiophorinae, Raymondella, Salteria, Sinampyxina
Subtaxa: Lonchodomas (Foliopyge) Lonchodomas blackstonensis Lonchodomas carinatus Lonchodomas chaziensis Lonchodomas clavulus Lonchodomas coagmentatum Lonchodomas depressus Lonchodomas halli Lonchodomas normalis Lonchodomas paenepennatus Lonchodomas pennatus Lonchodomas politus Lonchodomas portlocki Lonchodomas punctatus Lonchodomas retrolatus Lonchodomas rostratus Lonchodomas sublaevis Lonchodomas suriensis Lonchodomas tenuis Lonchodomas tumidus Lonchodomas volborthi Lonchodomas yohi
Type: Ampyx rostratus
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Uhaku of the Russian Federation (1 collection), Sweden (5)
• Chazyan of Canada (9: Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec), United States (12: New York, Tennessee)
• Whiterockian of Canada (10: Newfoundland and Labrador), United States (18: Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Vermont)
• Billingen of Sweden (1)
• Arenig of Argentina (1), Bolivia (2), China (3), Sweden (1)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (1: Québec)
• Ordovician of Argentina (5), Australia (1), Canada (13: Northwest Territories, Northwest Terrorities, Quebec, Québec), China (38), Czechia (4), Estonia (4), Kazakhstan (1), Kyrgyzstan (2), the Netherlands (1), Norway (48), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (57), Sweden (47), the United Kingdom (41), United States (15: California, Maine, Nevada, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia), Vietnam (1)
Total: 343 collections including 359 occurrences
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