Camarotoechia Hall and Clarke 1893 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae

Parent taxon: Camarotoechiinae according to A. Williams et al. 2002

See also Kirk and Amsden 1952, Raymond 1911 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxon: Plagiorhyncha

Subtaxa: Camarotoechia bimesiornata Camarotoechia dotis Camarotoechia emacerata Camarotoechia haraganensis Camarotoechia horsfordi Camarotoechia latisinuata Camarotoechia neglecta Camarotoechia prolifica Camarotoechia semiplicata Camarotoechia tethys

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Canada (1: British Columbia collection)

• Carboniferous of Australia (10), Canada (8: Alberta, Northwest Territories, Yukon), China (1), Ireland (1), Mexico (1), the United Kingdom (26), United States (64: Alaska, Arizona, California, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Texas, Utah, Virginia)

• Devonian of Algeria (5), Australia (1), Brazil (3), Canada (17: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (8), Colombia (2), France (6), Germany (2), Morocco (4), New Zealand (1), Poland (5), the Russian Federation (6), Spain (1), Tajikistan (3), United States (246: Alaska, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Montana, and Wyoming, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia), Venezuela (2), Vietnam (2)

• Niagaran of United States (1: Ohio)

• Silurian to Devonian of Algeria (1), Canada (1: Nova Scotia), United States (1: Oklahoma)

• Silurian of Afghanistan (1), Canada (81: Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (8), France (1), Ireland (2), Mauritania (1), Norway (1), Paraguay (1), the Russian Federation (7), Sweden (7), the United Kingdom (12), United States (117: Alaska, California, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, New York, Oklahoma, Virginia, West Virginia)

• Chazyan of United States (2: New York)

• Ordovician of United States (19: Georgia, New York, Virginia)

Total: 690 collections including 770 occurrences

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