Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Meristellidae
Synonym: Cryptothyrella Cooper 1942
Full reference: T. Davidson. 1882. British fossil Brachiopoda. Devonian and Silurian supplements. Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society 5(1):1-134
Parent taxon: Meristellinae according to L. Hints and D. A. T. Harper 2015
See also Boucot and Johnson 1964, Harper 1973, Isaacson et al. 1976, Sepkoski 2002, Sheehan 1977, Temple 1987 and Williams et al. 2002
Sister taxa: Arctomeristina, Charionella, Charionoides, Imdentistella, Meristella, Meristelloides, Meristina, Pentagonia, Plancella, Pseudomeristina
Subtaxa: Cryptothyrella lacrima Cryptothyrella ovoides Cryptothyrella terebratulina Hindella angustifrons Hindella cassidea Hindella crassa Hindella incipiens Hindella kiaeri Hindella prima Hindella prinstana Hindella umbonata
Type: Athyris umbonata
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Silurian of Argentina (3 collections), Canada (20: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Québec), China (8), Estonia (14), Norway (10), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (5), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (64), United States (36: Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Ohio, West Virginia), Venezuela (1)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (5: Québec)
• Ordovician of Canada (41: Quebec, Québec), China (26), Czechia (5), Estonia (7), Iran (1), Ireland (1), Latvia (24), Lithuania (1), Myanmar (1), New Zealand (1), Norway (24), Paraguay (1), Sweden (18), the United Kingdom (21), United States (3: Illinois, Oklahoma)
Total: 343 collections including 366 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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