Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Atrypinidae
Synonym: Imbricatospira
Parent taxon: Plectatrypinae according to P. Copper 1996
See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Jin and Chatterton 1997, Mitchell 1977, Sepkoski 2002, Temple 1987 and Williams et al. 2002
Sister taxa: Sypharatrypa, Xanthea
Subtaxa: Plectatrypa (Gutnia) Plectatrypa (Plectatrypa) Plectatrypa lamellosa Plectatrypa savagei Plectatrypa unicosta
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of United States (2: Nevada collections)
• Whitwellian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories)
• Jaani of Estonia (3)
• Niagaran of United States (1: Indiana)
• Silurian of Australia (2), Canada (15: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Québec), China (2), Czechia (1), Estonia (2), Lithuania (2), Mongolia (2), Norway (3), the Russian Federation (10), Sweden (22), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (50), United States (46: Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Nevada, New York, Wisconsin), Venezuela (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (2), China (7), Lithuania (2), the Russian Federation (4), the United Kingdom (6)
Total: 189 collections including 204 occurrences
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