†superfamily Discinacea Gray 1840 (lamp shell)

Lingulata - Discinida

Parent taxon: Discinida according to L. E. Holmer 1989

See also Bitner and Müller 2017, Emig et al. 2013, Hansen and Holmer 2011, Holmer 1986, Martin 1904, Mitchell 1977, Owen and Harper 1982, Pérez et al. 2023, Popov 2000, Williams et al. 2000 and Zhan and Jin 2005

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Disciniidae

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Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Japan (1 collection), United States (1: California)

• Pliocene of Italy (2), Peru (3), United States (7: Florida, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia)

• Miocene of Argentina (4), Austria (1), Belgium (2), Chile (1), Poland (4), South Africa (1), United States (19: California, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey)

• Oligocene of Austria (1), Germany (11), United States (1: California)

• Eocene of New Zealand (1), United States (3: California, Washington)

• Cretaceous of Cameroon (1), Chile (3), Germany (1), United States (17: Arizona, Colorado)

• Jurassic of Chile (1), France (1), Greenland (4), New Zealand (2), Norway (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (18)

• Triassic of Austria (2), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (1), Germany (6), Hungary (3), Italy (2), Jordan (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Utah)

• Permian of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (1), the Russian Federation (3), Ukraine (1)

• Carboniferous of Ireland (1), Libya (2), Peru (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: California, Kansas, Kentucky, Ohio)

• Devonian to Carboniferous of Libya (1)

• Devonian of the Czech Republic (4), Germany (1), Ghana (1), Libya (1), Morocco (1), Poland (1), United States (7: Iowa, New York)

• Silurian of the Czech Republic (1), Sweden (1)

• Ordovician of the Czech Republic (1), United States (1: Ohio)

• Cambrian of China (39), Pakistan (2)

Total: 217 collections including 219 occurrences

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