Spirigerina d'Orbigny 1849 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Atrypinidae

Parent taxon: Spirigerininae according to A. Williams et al. 2002

See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Jin and Chatterton 1997 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Australispira, Eospirigerina, Hectoria, Neospirigerina, Pectenospira, Qilianotryma, Rhynchogilviella, Schachriomonia, Sulcatospira

Subtaxa: Spirigerina (Eospirigerina) Spirigerina copperi Spirigerina marginalis Spirigerina quinquecostata Spirigerina supramarginalis

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Type: Terebratula marginalis

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Devonian of Australia (6 collections), Canada (10: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (6), Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (21), Tajikistan (6), United States (13: Nevada), Uzbekistan (2)

• Whitwellian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories)

• Silurian to Devonian of Australia (1)

• Silurian of Afghanistan (1), Australia (4), Austria (1), Belarus (1), Canada (13: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Québec, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (5), the Czech Republic (5), Estonia (2), Italy (1), Lithuania (1), Norway (13), the Russian Federation (6), Sweden (12), the United Kingdom (4), United States (6: California, Nevada), Venezuela (1)

• Ordovician to Silurian of Norway (1)

• Ordovician of Canada (15: Quebec), Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (3), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 166 collections including 170 occurrences

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