Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Atrypidae
Parent taxon: Atrypoidea according to A. Williams et al. 2002
See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Boucot and Johnson 1964, Howe 1988, Jin and Chatterton 1997, Macomber 1970, Mitchell 1977, Oraspold 1956 and Savage and Baxter 1995
Sister taxa: Atrypinidae, Atrypoidea latilingulata, Atrypoidea scheii, Lissatrypidae, Zygospiridae
Subtaxa: Atrypinae Carinatininae Gibberosatrypa Invertininae Pseudogruenewaldtiinae Spinatrypinae Variatrypinae Waiotrypa Zygospirinae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous to Permian of China (1 collection)
• Carboniferous of Australia (1), United States (3: California, Montana, illinois)
• Givetian of France (6), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: Missouri)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (18), Australia (54), Austria (1), Belarus (1), Belgium (26), Canada (283: Alberta, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Mackenzie, British Columbia, British columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Northwest Territories and Yukon, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (56), Colombia (22), the Czech Republic (11), France (30), Germany (39), Iran (2), Italy (4), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (1), Libya (2), Mongolia (6), Morocco (2), Myanmar (2), Peru (1), Poland (34), the Russian Federation (64), Spain (12), Tajikistan (6), Thailand (2), Ukraine (7), United States (672: Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin), Uzbekistan (5), Venezuela (5), Vietnam (13)
• Whitwellian of Canada (4: Northwest Territories)
• Jaani of Estonia (13), Lithuania (4)
• Niagaran of Canada (3: Québec), United States (3: Indiana, New York, Ohio)
• Silurian to Devonian of Algeria (1), Australia (1), Morocco (1), Pakistan (1), United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Australia (15), Belarus (5), Bolivia (1), Canada (106: British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon), China (16), the Czech Republic (21), Estonia (17), Greenland (2), India (4), Iran (1), Ireland (3), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (1), Latvia (3), Lithuania (41), Mexico (13), Mongolia (6), Morocco (1), Norway (10), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (26), Sweden (56), Tajikistan (2), Ukraine (14), the United Kingdom (73), United States (256: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin), Venezuela (3)
• Ordovician to Silurian of the Russian Federation (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (2), Canada (3: Nunavut), China (8), the Czech Republic (2), Lithuania (2), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (3: Idaho, Illinois)
Total: 2156 collections including 3072 occurrences