†family Leiorhynchidae Stainbrook 1945 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae

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

See also Jones 1982

Sister taxon: Septalariidae

Subtaxa: Alairhynchinae Basilicorhynchinae Calvinariinae Fenestrirostrinae Innuitellinae Leiorhynchinae Stenometoporhynchinae

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Type: Leiorhynchus

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Canada (3: Yukon collections), Mexico (3), the Russian Federation (2), United States (9: Idaho, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)

• Carboniferous of Argentina (2), Australia (1), the Czech Republic (3), Iran (3), Peru (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (25: Alaska, California, Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah)

• Devonian of Afghanistan (6), Australia (3), Canada (27: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Northwest Territories and Yukon, Nunavut, Ontario, Yukon), China (16), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (4), France (1), Germany (2), Iran (6), Libya (10), Morocco (1), Poland (7), the Russian Federation (3), United States (552: Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia)

• Silurian of Canada (2: Quebec, Québec), the Czech Republic (3), Spain (1), United States (1: California)

Total: 703 collections including 751 occurrences

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