Strophomenata - Productida - Lyttoniidae
Alternative spelling: Lyttonia (Leptodus)
Synonyms: Digitia de Gregorio 1930, Juxoldhamina Liang 1990, Lyttonia Waagen 1883, Lyttonia (Digitia) de Gregorio 1930, Lyttonia (Vincia) de Gregorio 1930, Oldhamina (Lyttonia) Waagen 1883, Spinolyttonia Sarycheva 1964, Vincia de Gregorio 1930
Full reference: E. Kayser. 1883. Obercarbonische fauna von Lo-Ping. China: Ergebnisse Eigener Reisen und Darauf Gegründeter Studien 4:160-208
Parent taxon: Lyttoniinae according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Branson 1948, de Gregorio 1930, Reed 1931, Sepkoski 2002 and Tazawa 2012
Sister taxa: Cardinocrania, Collemataria, Coscinophora, Eolyttonia, Gubleria, Keyserlingina, Loxophragmus, Matanoleptodus, Oldhamina, Oldhaminella, Pararigbyella, Petasmaia, Pirgulia
Subtaxa: Leptodus cancriniformis Leptodus deminutus Leptodus elongatus Leptodus guadalupensis Leptodus hemisphaericus Leptodus hoshanensis Leptodus huangi Leptodus kaluzinensis Leptodus lacuna Leptodus lamina Leptodus minor Leptodus nobilis Leptodus oldhaminoides Leptodus ovatus Leptodus richthofeni Leptodus trapezium Leptodus tumenlingensis Leptodus wuchangensis Poikilosakos tongluensis Spinolyttonia arakeljani
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Afghanistan (3 collections), Armenia (16), Australia (3), Azerbaijan (14), Cambodia (1), China (161), Croatia (5), Greece (2), Hungary (2), India (3), Indonesia (1), Iran (18), Italy (1), Japan (14), Malaysia (12), Pakistan (45), the Russian Federation (8), Serbia (2), Slovenia (2), Tajikistan (4), Thailand (5), Tunisia (6), Ukraine (1), United States (72: California, Montana, Oregon, Texas)
• Carboniferous to Permian of United States (1: California)
Total: 402 collections including 450 occurrences
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