Plectatrypa Cooper 1930 (lamp shell)

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

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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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