Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Alternative spelling: Sowerbyella (Plectodonta)
Parent taxon: Sowerbyellinae according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Kupfahl 1952, Sepkoski 2002 and Talent 1963
Sister taxa: Anisopleurella, Dubioleptina, Eochonetes, Eoplectodonta, Gunningblandella, Sowerbyella
Subtaxa: Plectodonta (Dalejodiscus) Plectodonta (Plectodonta) Plectodonta (Plectodontella) Plectodonta bipartita Plectodonta convexa Plectodonta lenis Plectodonta nubila Plectodonta petila
Type: Plectodonta mariae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (9 collections), Canada (1: Quebec), China (22), the Czech Republic (25), Germany (8), Kazakhstan (1), Morocco (2), Poland (1), Spain (5), Ukraine (7), United States (1: New York)
• Niagaran of Canada (3: Québec)
• Silurian to Devonian of Argentina (1), Australia (2), United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Argentina (4), Australia (16), Bolivia (1), Canada (14: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon), China (2), the Czech Republic (2), Germany (1), Lithuania (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (19: Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Wisconsin), Venezuela (2)
• Ordovician of Estonia (3), the Netherlands (1)
Total: 156 collections including 162 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.