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 robertsensis
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), the Czech Republic (4), France (3), Morocco (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (2), Spain (1), Ukraine (1), United States (139: 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: 201 collections including 223 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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