Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Eoorthidae
Full reference: C. W. Walcott. 1908. Cambrian Brachiopoda: descriptions of new genera and species. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 53(3):53-137
Parent taxon: Eoorthidae according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Henningsmoen 1958 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Apheoorthina, Apheoorthis, Austrohedra, Brahimorthis, Glaphyrorthis, Jivinella, Ocnerorthis, Otusia, Pompeckium, Robertorthis
Subtaxa: Eoorthis indianola Eoorthis newberryi Eoorthis remnicha Eoorthis sabus Eoorthis thyone Eoorthis zeno
Type: Orthis remnicha
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Ordovician of Argentina (5 collections), Canada (1: Quebec), China (5), Czechia (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Korea (4)
• Skullrockian of Greenland (1)
• Cambrian of Australia (1), Norway (3), the Russian Federation (3), United States (18: Montana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 43 collections including 46 occurrences
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