Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Synonyms: Qianjiangella, Urbimena Havlícek 1976
Parent taxon: Leptellininae according to M. Liljeroth et al. 2017
See also Jin and Chatterton 1997, Mitchell 1977, Percival et al. 2001, Sepkoski 2002, Williams et al. 2000 and Zhan et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Acculina, Bekkerella, Benignites, Dulankarella, Kajnaria, Kilbuchomena, Leptastichidia, Leptelloidea, Mabella, Reversella, Shlyginia
Subtaxa: Leptellina (Leptellina) Leptellina (Merciella) Leptellina llandeiloensis Leptellina mareki Leptellina seletensis Leptellina spatiosa Leptellina subquadrata Leptellina tennesseensis Leptellina transversa
Type: Leptellina tennesseensis
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Silurian of Canada (7: Northwest Territories collections), China (10), United States (2: Iowa)
• Uhaku of Sweden (3)
• Liben of Czechia (1)
• Chazyan of United States (4: Alabama, Tennessee)
• Whiterockian of United States (11: Nevada)
• Arenig of Argentina (1), China (2)
• Dawan of China (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (2), Australia (13), China (20), Czechia (1), Estonia (3), Iran (1), Ireland (3), Kazakhstan (9), Latvia (1), Mongolia (1), Myanmar (5), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (16), Sweden (2), the United Kingdom (20), United States (26: Alaska, California, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia), Vietnam (1)
• Ibexian of United States (1: Nevada)
Total: 168 collections including 174 occurrences
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