Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Meristellidae
Parent taxon: Meristellinae according to A. Williams et al. 2002
See also Boucot et al. 2008 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Arctomeristina, Charionella, Charionoides, Hindella, Imdentistella, Meristelloides, Meristina, Pentagonia, Plancella, Pseudomeristina
Subtaxa: Meristella (Whitfieldia) Meristella haskinsi Meristella martini Meristella robertsensis Meristella wisniowskii
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Givetian of United States (1: Missouri collection)
• Devonian of Argentina (1), Australia (3), Canada (23: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), Colombia (2), Czechia (4), France (3), Morocco (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (2), Spain (1), Ukraine (1), United States (154: Alaska, California, Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania), Venezuela (3), Vietnam (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of Algeria (1), Australia (1), United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Australia (2), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: Alaska, New York, Wisconsin)
• Ordovician of Latvia (3)
Total: 216 collections including 237 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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