Lingulata - Lingulida - Trematidae
Parent taxon: Trematidae according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Holmer 1989, Popov 2000, Sepkoski 2002 and Wright 1963
Sister taxa: Drabodiscina, Schizobolus, Schizocrania
Subtaxa: Trematis foerstei Trematis huronensis Trematis melliflua Trematis millepunctata Trematis norvegica Trematis terminalis
Type: Orbicula terminalis
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Silurian of Canada (3: Québec collections)
• Uhaku of Sweden (1)
• Chazyan of United States (1: Alabama)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (1: Québec), South Africa (1)
• Ordovician of Canada (7: Ontario), the Czech Republic (2), Ireland (1), Kazakhstan (5), Norway (2), South Africa (1), Sweden (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (46: Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Tennessee)
Total: 75 collections including 78 occurrences
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