Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Meristellidae
Parent taxon: Whitfieldellinae according to A. Williams et al. 2002
See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Jin and Chatterton 1997, Sepkoski 2002 and Sheehan 1977
Sister taxa: Koigia, Kozlenia, Tschatkalia
Subtaxa: Whitfieldella billingsana Whitfieldella nitida Whitfieldella pygmaea Whitfieldella sulcatina
Type: Atrypa nitida
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Whitwellian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories collections)
• Jaani of Estonia (7)
• Niagaran of United States (2: New York, Ohio)
• Silurian of Canada (39: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (3), the Czech Republic (4), Estonia (6), Sweden (10), the United Kingdom (16), United States (107: Alaska, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan and Ohio, New York, Tennessee, West Virginia, Wisconsin)
• Ordovician of United States (3: Alaska, Illinois, Missouri)
Total: 200 collections including 238 occurrences
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