Paracraniops Williams 1963 (lamp shell)

Craniata - Craniopsida - Craniopsidae

Parent taxon: Craniopsidae according to A. Williams et al. 2000

See also Mitchell 1977, Popov et al. 2000 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Craniops, Discinopsis, Lingulapholis, Pseudopholidops, Wrightiops

Subtaxa: Paracraniops ellipticus Paracraniops pararius Paracraniops patillis

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Silurian of Canada (3: Nova Scotia collections), China (6), Norway (3), the United Kingdom (31)

• Ordovician of China (4), the Czech Republic (1), Estonia (4), Kazakhstan (2), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (2), the United Kingdom (37)

Total: 96 collections each including a single occurrence

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