Lingulata - Lingulida - Paterulidae
Parent taxon: Paterulidae according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Holmer 1986, Mitchell 1977, Sepkoski 2002 and Wright 1963
Sister taxon: Diencobolus
Subtaxa: Paterula balclatchiensis Paterula bohemica Paterula holynensis Paterula naukatensis Paterula numerosa Paterula perfecta Paterula polita Paterula subcircularis
Type: Paterula bohemica
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Czechia (1 collection), Tajikistan (1), Thailand (1)
• Silurian of Australia (2), Canada (1: Nunavut), Czechia (1), Iran (1)
• Uhaku of Sweden (5)
• Dobrotivian of Czechia (2)
• Liben of Czechia (2)
• Chazyan of United States (4: Alabama, Oklahoma, Tennessee)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Nevada)
• Arenig of the United Kingdom (2)
• Ordovician of Argentina (3), Australia (13), Canada (1: Newfoundland and Labrador), China (1), Czechia (10), Estonia (12), Iran (2), Ireland (1), Kazakhstan (2), Latvia (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (3), Sweden (30), the United Kingdom (27), United States (3: New York, Tennessee)
Total: 134 collections including 136 occurrences
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