†superfamily Welleriellacea Abushik 1971 (ostracod)

Ostracoda - Palaeocopida

Alternative spelling: Wellerielloidea

Parent taxon: Beyrichicopina according to L. M. Melnikova 2019

See also Abushik 2015

Sister taxa: Beyrichioidea, Bolliacea, Craspedobolbinoidea, Hollinoidea, Indivisiacea, Kirkbyoidea, Kloedenioidea, Longisculacea, Oepikelloidea, Treposelloidea, Youngielloidea, Zygobolboidea

Subtaxa: Glanditiidae Leperditellidae Welleriellidae

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Type: Welleriella

Ecology: epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of China (1 collection), United States (2: Kansas)

• Devonian of France (2), Morocco (2), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Illinois)

• Silurian to Devonian of United States (1: Oklahoma)

• Silurian of Australia (1), the Russian Federation (1)

• Uhaku of the Russian Federation (4)

• Chazyan of Canada (18: Northwest Territories, Quebec)

• Whiterockian of Canada (9: Northwest Territories), United States (23: Nevada)

• Arenig of Bolivia (1), China (1), the Russian Federation (1)

• Ordovician of Canada (25: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (9), Czechia (1), the Russian Federation (31), United States (59: Alaska, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nevada, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin)

• Ibexian of United States (1: Nevada)

Total: 195 collections including 261 occurrences

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