Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
Synonyms: Metabolipa Godefroid 1974, Neometabolipa Godefroid 1974
Full reference: J. Hall. 1867. Account of some new or little known species of fossils from rocks of the age of the Niagara Group. State of New York in Senate Document 239:305-410
Parent taxon: Gypidulinae according to A. Williams et al. 2002
See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Jin and Chatterton 1997, Kirk and Amsden 1952, Savage and Baxter 1995, Sepkoski 2002 and Talent 1963
Sister taxa: Amsdenina, Ascanigypa, Breviseptum, Cadudium, Carinagypa, Caryogyps, Galeatagypa, Gashaomiaoia, Gypidulina, Gypiduloides, Lysigypa, Novozemelia, Physemella, Plicogypa, Sieberella
Subtaxa: Gypidula (Gypidula) Gypidula abunda Gypidula acuminata Gypidula akimiskiformis Gypidula biloba Gypidula biplicata Gypidula bowsheri Gypidula cornuta Gypidula galeata Gypidula laeviuscula Gypidula loweryi Gypidula mimica Gypidula multicostata Gypidula praeloweryi Gypidula pseudogaleata Gypidula rudiplicativa Gypidula simplex Gypidula stainbrooki Gypidula subcarinata Gypidula typicalis
Type: Gypidula typicalis
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Givetian of United States (1: Missouri collection)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (2), Australia (9), Belgium (1), Canada (98: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Yukon, Yukon Territory), China (13), the Czech Republic (6), France (5), Germany (8), Italy (2), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (48), Spain (3), Tajikistan (8), Thailand (1), Ukraine (1), United States (111: Alaska, Arizona, California, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania), Uzbekistan (5), Vietnam (4)
• Whitwellian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories)
• Jaani of Estonia (2)
• Niagaran of Canada (1: Québec), United States (1: Ohio)
• Silurian to Devonian of Australia (1), Pakistan (1), Poland (1), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Australia (5), Belarus (3), Canada (37: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Yukon), China (3), the Czech Republic (4), Estonia (5), Ireland (1), Latvia (1), Lithuania (11), Mexico (3), Mongolia (2), the Russian Federation (14), Sweden (20), Tajikistan (2), Ukraine (6), the United Kingdom (29), United States (25: Alaska, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Nevada, New York, Tennessee, West Virginia), Venezuela (1)
Total: 513 collections including 607 occurrences
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