†subfamily Isorthinae Schuchert and Cooper 1931 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae

Synonym: Isorthidae Schuchert and Cooper 1931 [replaced name]

Parent taxon: Dalmanellidae according to M. Rubel 2011

See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Hints 1975, Jin and Chatterton 1997, Villas and Cocks 1996, Williams et al. 2000 and Wright 1964

Sister taxa: Cincinnetina, Cortezorthinae, Crassiorina, Dalmanella, Dalmanellid, Dalmanellinae, Onniella, Prokopiinae, Resserellinae, Templeellinae

Subtaxa: Costisorthis Isorthis Levenea Peleicostella Protocortezorthis Tyersella

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Devonian of Afghanistan (1 collection), Argentina (1), Australia (37), Belarus (1), Canada (40: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Yukon), China (19), the Czech Republic (5), France (3), Germany (3), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (1), Mongolia (1), Morocco (3), New Zealand (1), Poland (9), the Russian Federation (6), Spain (3), Tajikistan (2), Ukraine (4), United States (89: Alaska, Maryland, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania), Vietnam (3)

• Whitwellian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories)

• Jaani of Estonia (7), Lithuania (6)

• Niagaran of Canada (3: Québec)

• Silurian to Devonian of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Canada (1: Nova Scotia), Poland (2), United States (1: Oklahoma)

• Silurian of Argentina (5), Australia (8), Belarus (6), Canada (55: British Columbia, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (41), the Czech Republic (9), Estonia (29), Ireland (3), Kazakhstan (7), Latvia (3), Lithuania (59), Mexico (10), Mongolia (9), New Zealand (1), Norway (62), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (13), Spain (2), Sweden (24), Tajikistan (1), Ukraine (13), the United Kingdom (55), United States (74: Alabama, Alaska, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Wisconsin), Venezuela (2)

• Ordovician to Silurian of Norway (1), the Russian Federation (1)

• Ordovician of Australia (5), Belarus (2), China (1), Estonia (13), Ireland (1), Latvia (2), Lithuania (7), Myanmar (1), the Russian Federation (1), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 789 collections including 871 occurrences

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