Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Primitiidae
Parent taxon: Primitiidae according to G. Henningsmoen 1953
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Ectoprimitia, Opisthoplax, Pribylina
Subtaxa: Primitia conchoides Primitia lativia Primitia osloensis Primitia strangulata
Type: Beyrichia strangulata
Ecology: epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Couvinien of Australia (1 collection)
• Devonian of Brazil (1), China (4), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Silurian of Brazil (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Dobrotivian of France (1), Portugal (1)
• Uhaku of the Russian Federation (17)
• Chazyan of Canada (2: Ontario, Quebec)
• Volkhov of the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (1)
• Ordovician of Canada (8: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (7), Estonia (1), North Korea (1), Norway (2), the Russian Federation (9), Spain (1), Sweden (6), the United Kingdom (18), United States (16: Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Ohio)
• Tremadoc of China (3)
Total: 105 collections including 124 occurrences
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