†Pseudoprotathyris Modzalevskaya 1979 (lamp shell)
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Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae
Parent taxon: Didymothyridinae according to P. Musteikis and T. L. Modzalevskaya 2002
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Williams et al. 2002
Sister taxa: Buchanathyris, Collarothyris, Didymothyris, Dogdathyris, Glassina, Greenfieldia, Jarovathyris, Leptathyris, Svetlania
Subtaxa: Pseudoprotathyris infantilis
Type: Protathyris infantile
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Poland (1 collection), Ukraine (3)
• Silurian of Canada (3: Nunavut), the Czech Republic (8), Lithuania (23), Poland (1), Ukraine (1)
Total: 40 collections including 41 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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