Bivalvia - Colpomyida - Colpomyidae
Full reference: J. Pojeta and J. Gilbert-Tomlinson. 1977. Australian Ordovician pelecypod molluscs. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Bulletin 174:1-64
Parent taxon: Colpomyoidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Cope 1996, Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 and Sánchez 2001
Sister taxon: Evyanidae
Subtaxa: Colpantyx Colpomya Eurymya Pseudocolpomya Xestoconcha
Type: Colpomya
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Yemen (4 collections)
• Silurian of Spain (1), Sweden (4), United States (1: Alaska)
• Arenig of Argentina (3)
• Ordovician of Argentina (2), Australia (13), Canada (8: Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), Czechia (1), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (29: Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia)
Total: 70 collections including 84 occurrences