Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Meristidae
Parent taxon: Meristinae according to A. Williams et al. 2002
See also Jin and Chatterton 1997 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Amerista, Aulidospira, Camarium, Dicamara, Dicamaropsis, Tyrganiella
Subtaxa: Merista cuneatina Merista fabulosa Merista herculea Merista maccullochensis Merista oklahomensis Merista rhombiformis Merista tennesseensis
Type: Terebratula herculea
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Australia (1 collection), United States (4: Texas)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (1), Austria (1), Belarus (1), China (2), the Czech Republic (10), Italy (2), Morocco (2), Myanmar (2), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (6), Ukraine (2), United States (3: Maryland, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania)
• Whitwellian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories)
• Niagaran of Canada (1: Québec)
• Silurian of Canada (29: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Québec, Yukon Territory), the Czech Republic (1), Italy (1), the Russian Federation (6), Spain (1), United States (35: California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Wisconsin), Venezuela (1)
Total: 116 collections including 122 occurrences
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