Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Parent taxon: Sowerbyellinae according to M. Liljeroth et al. 2017
See also Cocks 2010, Mitchell 1977, Owen and Harper 1982, Percival et al. 2001, Popov et al. 2000, Rõõmusoks 1959, Sepkoski 2002, Williams et al. 2000 and Zhan et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Anisopleurella, Dubioleptina, Eochonetes, Eoplectodonta, Gunningblandella, Plectodonta
Subtaxa: Sowerbyella (Eochonetes) Sowerbyella (Rugosowerbyella) Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) Sowerbyella (Viruella) Sowerbyella anticipata Sowerbyella billabongensis Sowerbyella curdsvillensis Sowerbyella eha Sowerbyella gigantea Sowerbyella grierensis Sowerbyella kayi Sowerbyella lebanonensis Sowerbyella lepta Sowerbyella merriami Sowerbyella minnesotensis Sowerbyella monilifera Sowerbyella multipartita Sowerbyella perplexa Sowerbyella raegaverensis Sowerbyella rugosa Sowerbyella saunjaensis Sowerbyella silicica Sowerbyella sladensis Sowerbyella socialis Sowerbyella soudleyensis Sowerbyella subovalis Sowerbyella trabeata
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (2 collections)
• Silurian to Devonian of Germany (1)
• Silurian of Australia (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (6: New York)
• Dobrotivian of Spain (1)
• Uhaku of Belarus (2), Estonia (7), Latvia (1), Lithuania (2)
• Whiterockian of United States (10: California, Nevada, Virginia)
• Chazyan of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), United States (3: Tennessee, Virginia)
• Arenig of China (3)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (5: Québec), United States (3: California)
• Ordovician of Argentina (2), Australia (9), Belarus (5), Belgium (7), Canada (98: Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Northwest Terrorities, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (51), Estonia (128), Ireland (12), Kazakhstan (50), Latvia (16), Lithuania (31), the Netherlands (1), Norway (18), the Russian Federation (10), Sweden (10), the United Kingdom (124), United States (437: Alaska, California, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania and Virginia, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin), Venezuela (1)
• Tremadoc of China (1)
Total: 1060 collections including 1161 occurrences
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