Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Escharoporidae
Synonym: Arthropora Ulrich 1882
Parent taxon: Escharoporidae according to A. Ernst and H. A. Nakrem 2012
See also Bassler 1911, Bassler 1953, Jiménez-Sánchez 2009 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Championodictya, Escharopora, Oanduella, Oanduellina, Proavella
Subtaxa: Arthropora simplex Graptodictya bonnemai Graptodictya boreniensis Graptodictya elegantula Graptodictya meneghinii Graptodictya obliqua Graptodictya perelegans Graptodictya proava
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Silurian of Belarus (1 collection), Norway (1)
• Dobrotivian of France (1)
• Chazyan of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), United States (4: Virginia)
• Ordovician of Canada (1: Ontario), Estonia (6), France (1), Libya (1), Morocco (2), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Sweden (6), United States (70: Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia)
Total: 98 collections including 101 occurrences
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