†family Plaesiomyidae Schuchert 1913 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plaesiomyidae

Parent taxon: Orthoidea according to M. Liljeroth et al. 2017

See also Howe 1988, Macomber 1970, Mitchell 1977, Popov et al. 2000, Potter 1990, Williams et al. 2000 and Zuykov et al. 2008

Sister taxa: Anomalorthidae, Archaeorthidae, Bajanorthis, Bohemiellidae, Cathaysiorthidae, Glyptorthidae, Hesperonomiidae, Hesperorthidae, Lycophoriidae, Malinella, Nugnecella, Orthidae, Orthidiellidae, Ottadalenites, Poramborthidae, Productorthidae, Skenidioidae, Tarfayidae, Turarella, Whittardiidae, Zhejiangorthis, Dinorthidae, Toxorthidae, Dolerorthidae

Subtaxa: Bokotorthis Evenkininae Metorthinae Plaesiomyinae

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Silurian of Sweden (6 collections)

• Uhaku of the Russian Federation (1)

• Chazyan of Canada (19: Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec), United States (57: New York, Tennessee, Virginia)

• Whiterockian of United States (13: California, Nevada)

• Arenig of Bolivia (3), Canada (1: New Brunswick), China (5)

• Dawan of China (2)

• Ordovician to Silurian of United States (1: California)

• Ordovician of Argentina (5), Australia (19), Belarus (2), Bolivia (5), Canada (127: British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Nunvait, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (19), Estonia (20), France (1), Ireland (5), Kazakhstan (30), Myanmar (1), Norway (4), Peru (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (26), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (53), United States (353: Alaska, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming)

• Ibexian of United States (1: Nevada)

Total: 782 collections including 995 occurrences

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