Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Atrypidae
Synonym: Imbricatospira
Parent taxon: Carinatininae according to W. I. Mitchell 1977
See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Jin and Chatterton 1997, Sepkoski 2002 and Williams et al. 2002
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Plectatrypa imbricata Plectatrypa lamellosa Plectatrypa savagei Plectatrypa unicosta
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of United States (2: Nevada collections)
• Whitwellian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories)
• Jaani of Estonia (3)
• Niagaran of United States (1: Indiana)
• Silurian of Australia (2), Canada (15: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Québec), China (2), the Czech Republic (1), Estonia (2), Lithuania (2), Mongolia (2), Norway (3), the Russian Federation (10), Sweden (31), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (8), United States (44: Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Nevada, New York, Wisconsin), Venezuela (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (2), China (7), Lithuania (2), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (6)
Total: 152 collections including 163 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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