Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Meristellidae
Parent taxon: Meristellinae according to P. Musteikis and T. L. Modzalevskaya 2002
See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Sepkoski 2002 and Williams et al. 2002
Sister taxa: Arctomeristina, Charionella, Charionoides, Hindella, Imdentistella, Meristella, Meristelloides, Pentagonia, Plancella, Pseudomeristina
Subtaxa: Meristina lara Meristina maria Meristina nasuta Meristina obtusa Meristina podolica
Type: Meristella maria
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Canada (8: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario collections), United States (31: Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Nevada, New York)
• Jaani of Estonia (7), Lithuania (3)
• Niagaran of Canada (2: Québec)
• Silurian of Canada (35: Anticosti, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon), China (4), the Czech Republic (6), Estonia (2), Lithuania (18), Mexico (8), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Sweden (7), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (6), United States (65: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Wisconsin), Venezuela (2)
• Ordovician of China (3)
Total: 213 collections including 219 occurrences
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