Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Tetradellidae
Parent taxon: Tetradellidae according to R. H. Benson et al. 1961
See also Henningsmoen 1953 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Bassleratiinae, Bellornatia, Fidelitella, Foramenella, Hippula, Kiesowia, Ogmoopsis, Perspicillinae, Piretellinae, Raymondatia, Reuentalina, Sigmoopsinae, Tetradellinae, Ushkarella, Vittella
Subtaxa: Tetradella plicatula Tetradella quadrilirata
Type: Beyrichia quadrilirata
Ecology: epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of United States (2: Pennsylvania collections)
• Dobrotivian of Portugal (1)
• Chazyan of Canada (7: Northwest Territories)
• Volkhov of the Russian Federation (1)
• Ordovician of Canada (24: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario), Estonia (1), Latvia (4), Morocco (2), Norway (3), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (1), United States (24: Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Tennessee)
Total: 72 collections including 92 occurrences
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