†family Archinacellidae Knight 1956 (mollusk)

Tergomya - Archinacellida - Archinacellidae

Full reference: J. B. Knight. 1956. New families of Gastropoda. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 46(2):41-42

Parent taxon: Archinacelloidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2017

See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Ebbestad and Yochelson 2000, Golikov and Starobogatov 1975, Knight et al. 1960, Knight and Yochelson 1960 and Wahlman 1992

Sister taxa: Archaeopragidae, Damilinidae, Metoptomatidae, Solandangella

Subtaxa: Archinacella Archinacellopsis Barrandicella Barrandicellopsis Floripatella Guelphinacella Marekicella

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Type: Archinacella

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Silurian of Canada (1: Ontario collection)

• Dobrotivian of the Czech Republic (2), Spain (3)

• Chazyan of Canada (1: Quebec), United States (15: New York)

• Whiterockian of Canada (1: Newfoundland and Labrador), United States (1: Nevada)

• Ordovician of Canada (20: Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), the Czech Republic (9), France (1), Greenland (1), Norway (6), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (4), United States (50: Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Wisconsin)

• Cressagian of South Korea (1)

• Cambrian of United States (1: Wisconsin)

Total: 120 collections including 146 occurrences

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