Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Parastrophinidae
Synonym: Parastrophia Hall and Clarke 1893 [replaced name]
Full reference: C. Schuchert and C. M. LeVene. 1929. New names for brachiopod homonyms. The American Journal of Science, Fifth Series 17:119-122
Parent taxon: Parastrophinidae according to L. E. Popov et al. 2005
See also Mitchell 1977, Popov et al. 2000, Schuchert and LeVene 1929, Sepkoski 2002, Williams et al. 2002 and Wright 1974
Sister taxa: Anastrophia, Eoanastrophia, Eostrophina, Jolkinia, Liostrophia, Maydenella, Parastrophinella, Protanastrophia
Subtaxa: Parastrophina anceps Parastrophina angulosa Parastrophina balcletchiensis Parastrophina bilobata Parastrophina dura Parastrophina hemiplicata Parastrophina iliana Parastrophina lindstroemi Parastrophina lindstromi Parastrophina minor Parastrophina pentagonalis Parastrophina plena Parastrophina portentosa Parastrophina scotica
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Silurian of Kazakhstan (1 collection), the Russian Federation (3)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Nevada)
• Chazyan of United States (1: Alabama)
• Ordovician of Australia (3), Canada (17: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), China (1), Estonia (4), Kazakhstan (18), Lithuania (2), Norway (4), the Russian Federation (4), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (21: Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia)
Total: 87 collections including 95 occurrences
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