Rhynchonellata - Protorthida - Skenidiidae
Parent taxon: Skenidiidae according to M. Rubel 2011
See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Benedetto 2003, Jin and Chatterton 1997, Mitchell 1977, Sepkoski 2002, Williams et al. 2000 and Wright 1964
Sister taxa: Crossiskenidium, Protoskenidioides, Replicoskenidioides, Skenidium, Tropidothyris
Subtaxa: Skenidioides acutum Skenidioides anthonense Skenidioides asteroideus Skenidioides billingsi Skenidioides costatus Skenidioides craigensis Skenidioides elongatus Skenidioides greenhoughi Skenidioides hymiri Skenidioides kayseri Skenidioides lewisii Skenidioides multifarius Skenidioides oklahomensis Skenidioides operosa Skenidioides paucicostatus Skenidioides petrasi Skenidioides pyramidalis Skenidioides robertsensis Skenidioides scoliodus Skenidioides woodlandiensis
Type: Skenidioides billingsi
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (5 collections), Canada (30: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (1), the Czech Republic (7), Italy (1), Morocco (2), Poland (8), Ukraine (3), United States (12: Nevada)
• Whitwellian of Canada (4: Northwest Territories)
• Jaani of Estonia (7), Lithuania (4)
• Niagaran of Canada (2: Québec)
• Silurian to Devonian of Poland (1)
• Silurian of Australia (3), Belarus (3), Canada (24: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Québec, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (5), the Czech Republic (6), Estonia (34), Iran (1), Latvia (1), Lithuania (32), Mexico (1), Norway (24), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (6), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (97), United States (37: California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Wisconsin), Venezuela (1)
• Chazyan of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), United States (1: Alabama)
• Whiterockian of United States (4: Nevada)
• Arenig of Argentina (2), China (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Arenigian of Argentina (3)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Norway (1)
• Ordovician of Australia (4), Belgium (9), Canada (12: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (16), Estonia (11), Ireland (8), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (4), Latvia (1), Lithuania (5), Myanmar (1), Norway (11), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (5), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (56), United States (58: Alaska, California, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin)
Total: 584 collections including 605 occurrences
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