Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Alternative spelling: Spirifer (Delthyris)
Parent taxon: Delthyridinae according to A. Williams et al. 2006
See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Johnson 1970, Kirk and Amsden 1952 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxon: Ivanothyris
Subtaxa: Delthyris (Quadrifarius) Delthyris acutilirata Delthyris consobrina Delthyris elegans Delthyris elevata Delthyris ptychodes Delthyris pusio Delthyris rostrata
Type: Delthyris elevata
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Australia (3 collections), Canada (1: Alberta), United States (5: Alaska, Indiana, Montana)
• Devonian of Algeria (2), Australia (6), China (1), Kazakhstan (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (5), Tajikistan (1), United States (16: Alaska, Indiana, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, West Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania)
• Niagaran of Canada (2: Québec)
• Silurian to Devonian of Canada (2: Nova Scotia)
• Silurian of Australia (2), Belarus (2), Canada (18: Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (1), Estonia (14), Latvia (3), Lithuania (16), Mexico (12), Norway (3), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (5), Spain (1), Sweden (20), Tajikistan (1), Ukraine (9), the United Kingdom (7), United States (25: Alaska, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, West Virginia), Venezuela (1)
• Ordovician of United States (1: Illinois)
Total: 188 collections including 208 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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