Paterinata - Paterinida - Paterinidae
Synonyms: Iphidella Walcott 1905, Micromitra (Iphidella) Walcott 1905, Walcottina Cobbold 1921
Full reference: F. B. Meek. 1873. Lists of fossils collected. Sixth Annual Report of the U.S. Geological Survey of the territories, embracing portions of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Utah 463-478
Parent taxon: Paterinidae according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Bengtson 1992, Sepkoski 2002, Walcott 1905, Walcott 1908 and Walcott 1912
Sister taxa: Cordatia, Dictyonina, Dictyonites, Kolihium, Lacunites, Paterina, Wynnia
Subtaxa: Iphidella grata Iphidella labradorica Iphidella major Iphidella nisus Iphidella prospectensis Iphidella sculptilis Micromitra (Iphidella) louise Micromitra (Iphidella) nyssa Micromitra bella Micromitra haydeni Micromitra lepida Micromitra nerranubawu Micromitra semicircularis
Type: Micromitra taurina
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Tremadoc of China (1 collection)
• Solvan of Australia (1)
• Amgan of Kazakhstan (1)
• Delamaran of Canada (23: British Columbia), Mexico (1), United States (3: Idaho)
• Cambrian of Argentina (1), Australia (22), Canada (81: Alberta, Alberta-British Columbia, British Columbia, Labrador, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia), China (1), Denmark (2), Greenland (9), Kazakhstan (11), New Zealand (1), Spain (6), the United Kingdom (3), United States (35: California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah, Wyoming)
• Waucoban of United States (1: Washington)
Total: 203 collections including 212 occurrences
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