Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophochonetidae
Parent taxon: Protochonetinae according to M. Rubel 2011
See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Jin and Chatterton 1997, Sepkoski 2002 and Williams et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Eoplicanoplia, Hypselonetes, Nabarredia, Shagamella
Subtaxa: Protochonetes elyensis Protochonetes harricanensis Protochonetes ludlovensis Protochonetes ludloviensis Protochonetes minimus Protochonetes piltenensis Protochonetes striatellus
Type: Protochonetes ludloviensis
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (16 collections), Belarus (1), Canada (1: Quebec), China (5), the Russian Federation (1)
• Whitwellian of Canada (1: Northwest Territories)
• Jaani of Lithuania (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of Australia (1), Canada (1: Nova Scotia)
• Silurian of Argentina (3), Australia (5), Belarus (5), Bolivia (1), Brazil (1), Canada (33: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Québec), China (1), Estonia (21), Ireland (2), Latvia (3), Lithuania (34), Norway (2), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (2), Sweden (7), Ukraine (17), the United Kingdom (74), United States (3: Indiana, Nevada), Venezuela (1)
Total: 247 collections including 256 occurrences
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