Stegerhynchus Foerste 1909 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae

Synonyms: Stegerhynchops, Stegorhynchella Rzhonsnitskaya 1959, Tungussotoechia

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

See also Amsden 1983 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Hiscobeccus, Otarorhyncha, Pleurocornu, Rhynchotrema, Stegocornu

Subtaxa: none

Type: Stegerhynchus praecursor

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Devonian of Australia (1 collection), China (1), Kazakhstan (1), Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (7), Tajikistan (2)

• Whitwellian of Canada (1: Northwest Territories)

• Jaani of Estonia (4)

• Silurian to Devonian of Mauritania (1), Morocco (1)

• Silurian of Argentina (1), Belarus (1), Canada (80: British Columbia, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (8), Estonia (21), Latvia (2), Lithuania (2), Mongolia (12), Norway (3), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (21), Spain (2), Sweden (15), Ukraine (5), the United Kingdom (64), United States (68: California, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin), Venezuela (1)

• Ordovician of Norway (2), Sweden (2), United States (7: Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma)

Total: 338 collections including 381 occurrences

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