†family Proplinidae Knight and Yochelson 1960 (mollusk)

Tergomya - Tryblidiida - Proplinidae

Full reference: J. B. Knight and E. L. Yochelson. 1960. Monoplacophora. Treatise on invertebrate paleontology. Part I. Mollusca 1 I(1):77-84

Parent taxon: Tryblidioidea according to J. C. W. Cope and J. O. R. Ebbestad 2024

See also Starobogatov 1970, Stinchcomb and Angeli 2002 and Wahlman 1992

Sister taxa: Bipulvinidae, Drahomiridae, Neopilinidae, Tryblidiidae

Subtaxa: Irondalia Potosiplina Proplina Titanoplina Vallatotheca

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Type: Propilina

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Devonian of Australia (1 collection)

• Whiterockian of United States (1: Nevada)

• Ordovician of Canada (2: Ontario), Greenland (1), South Korea (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (19: Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, Texas, Vermont)

• Cambrian of Antarctica (3), Australia (3), United States (14: Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New York, Wisconsin)

Total: 46 collections including 55 occurrences

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