†family Pentameridae M'Coy 1844 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Pentameridae

Full reference: F. M'Coy. 1844. A synopsis of the characters of the Carboniferous limestone fossils of Ireland 1-207

Parent taxon: Pentameroidea according to A. Williams et al. 2002

See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Jin and Chatterton 1997 and Talent 1963

Sister taxa: Conchidiidae, Subrianidae, Virgianidae

Subtaxa: Bisulcata Brooksina Capelliniella Eokirkidium Eopentamerus Harpidium Jolvia Kirkidium Lissocoelina Nanukidium Pentamerifera Pentamerinae Pentameroides Pentameroidinae Pentamerus Rhipidium Stenopentamerus Twenhofelia

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Devonian of Australia (2 collections), Canada (1: Yukon), France (4), Germany (1), Italy (1), Morocco (1)

• Clinton of Canada (7: British Columbia)

• Silurian of Australia (4), Belarus (1), Canada (152: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon Territory), China (16), the Czech Republic (6), Estonia (25), Greenland (2), India (1), Iran (1), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (2), Latvia (1), Lithuania (8), Mexico (1), Mongolia (4), Norway (2), the Russian Federation (20), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Sweden (14), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (13), United States (123: Alaska, California, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Utah, Wisconsin)

• Niagaran of Canada (1: Québec), United States (2: Indiana, Ohio)

Total: 421 collections including 499 occurrences

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