Leptaena Dalman 1828 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae

Synonyms: Kurnamena Roomusoks 1989, Leptaenopoma Marek and Havlíček 1967, Orhoria Havlicek and Storch 1990, Similoleptaena Roomusoks 1989, Turgenostrophia

Parent taxon: Leptaeninae according to L. Hints and D. A. T. Harper 2015

See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Cocks 2005, Cocks 2010, Congreve et al. 2015, Havlicek and Storch 1990, Jin and Chatterton 1997, Mitchell 1977, Musteikis and Cocks 2004, Oraspold 1956, Owen and Harper 1982, Raymond 1911, Roomusoks 2004, Rubel 2011, Sepkoski 2002, Villas and Cocks 1996 and Williams et al. 2000

Sister taxa: Astamena, Bracteoleptaena, Estonomena, Glossoleptaena, Harjumena, Hingganoleptaena, Hollardina, Lepidoleptaena, Leptaenopyxis, Leptagonia, Limbimurina, Lioleptaena, Lissoleptaena, Mackerrovia, Notoleptaena, Oandumena, Rugoleptaena, Schmidtomena, Tchadania, Rhactomena

Subtaxa: Kurnamena acuta Kurnamena laterorugata Kurnamena palmrei Kurnamena rugosoides Kurnamena spumifera Kurnamena taxilla Leptaena (Leptaena) Leptaena (Ygdrasilomena) Leptaena acuticuspidata Leptaena aequalis Leptaena alliku Leptaena amelia Leptaena analogaeformis Leptaena arberae Leptaena argentina Leptaena borghiana Leptaena boyaca Leptaena contermina Leptaena convexa Leptaena cooperi Leptaena croma Leptaena crypta Leptaena cryptoides Leptaena dejecta Leptaena delicata Leptaena electra Leptaena ennessbe Leptaena gibbosa Leptaena holcrofti Leptaena indigena Leptaena kentuckiana Leptaena lappa Leptaena lappina Leptaena lemniscata Leptaena limbifera Leptaena moniquensis Leptaena nanaformis Leptaena nassichuki Leptaena odeon Leptaena oklahomensis Leptaena orhor Leptaena parvirugata Leptaena parvissima Leptaena paucirugata Leptaena poulseni Leptaena praequalis Leptaena provellerosa Leptaena purpurea Leptaena quadrata Leptaena rara Leptaena rhomboidalis Leptaena richmondensis Leptaena rugaurita Leptaena rugosa Leptaena salopiensis Leptaena semiradiata Leptaena sperion Leptaena tenuissimestriata Leptaena valida Leptaena veldrensis Leptaena vellerosa Leptaena ventricosa Leptaena ventricosa Leptaena zeta Leptaena ziegleri Leptaenopoma trifidium Orhoria lappa Orhoria lappina Similoleptaena crassorugata Similoleptaena friedrichi Similoleptaena ingrica Similoleptaena pertenuis Similoleptaena planitia Similoleptaena tarwanpensis Similoleptaena undosa

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Type: Leptaena rugosa

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of Australia (1 collection), Canada (1: Yukon), Mexico (1), United States (11: California, Indiana, Montana, Utah)

• Givetian of United States (1: Missouri)

• Devonian to Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1)

• Devonian of Afghanistan (3), Argentina (1), Australia (7), Canada (25: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), China (5), Colombia (16), the Czech Republic (1), France (1), Germany (5), Italy (2), Libya (2), Morocco (2), Myanmar (2), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (2), United States (106: Colorado, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania), Venezuela (3), Vietnam (2)

• Whitwellian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories)

• Jaani of Estonia (22), Lithuania (6)

• Niagaran of Canada (3: Québec)

• Silurian to Devonian of Argentina (1), Australia (1), United States (1: Oklahoma)

• Silurian of Afghanistan (1), Argentina (8), Australia (8), Belarus (5), Bolivia (1), Canada (97: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (15), the Czech Republic (20), Estonia (33), Greenland (3), Iran (1), Ireland (1), Kazakhstan (1), Latvia (3), Lithuania (39), Mexico (15), Mongolia (9), Norway (28), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (9), Spain (2), Sweden (62), the United Kingdom (118), United States (194: Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia, Wisconsin), Venezuela (3)

• Dobrotivian of France (2)

• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (2: Québec), the Russian Federation (1)

• Ordovician of Argentina (1), Belarus (1), Belgium (10), Canada (44: Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (22), the Czech Republic (7), Estonia (96), France (2), Ireland (3), Latvia (21), Lithuania (17), Mongolia (2), Myanmar (1), New Zealand (1), Norway (34), Portugal (1), Spain (1), Sweden (22), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (82), United States (111: Alaska, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia)

Total: 1402 collections including 1487 occurrences

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