Lingulata - Lingulida - Discinidae
Parent taxon: Discinoidea according to M. A. Bitner and A. Müller 2017
See also Emig et al. 2013, Hansen and Holmer 2011, Holmer 1986, Holmer 1987, Holmer 1989, Holmer et al. 2005, Huxley 1869, Martin 1904, Mitchell 1977, Owen and Harper 1982, Pérez et al. 2023, Popov 2000, Williams et al. 2000, Wright 1963 and Zhan and Jin 2005
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Acrosaccus Chynithele Discradisca Gigadiscina Opatrilkiella Orbiculoidea Orbiculoideinae Roemerella Schizotreta
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Bulgaria (1 collection), France (2)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of Ukraine (1)
• Paleocene of United States (1: Texas)
• Cretaceous of Greenland (1), New Zealand (1), United States (2: California, Minnesota)
• Jurassic of Canada (3: British Columbia, Yukon), France (2), Germany (2), Greenland (27), United States (1: California)
• Triassic of Canada (4: British Columbia), China (10), Germany (1), Greenland (5), Japan (1), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (3), the Russian Federation (20), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: Idaho)
• Permian of Australia (3), Bolivia (8), Canada (2: Nunavut, Yukon), China (33), Greenland (1), Italy (1), Japan (6), Lithuania (2), Mexico (7), Mongolia (1), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (2), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (22), the United Kingdom (6), United States (52: Alaska, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (6), Australia (5), Belgium (1), Belize (2), Bolivia (2), Canada (2: Alberta, Northwest Territories), the Czech Republic (2), Germany (4), Ireland (2), Peru (4), Spain (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (45), United States (148: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Iowa/Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Devonian of Antarctica (5), Argentina (2), Australia (2), Bolivia (1), Brazil (38), Canada (20: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories and Yukon, Nunavut, Quebec, Yukon Territory), China (10), the Czech Republic (11), France (4), Germany (4), Libya (2), Mauritania (2), Morocco (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (5), South Africa (8), the United Kingdom (1), United States (90: Alaska, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin), Uruguay (1), Vietnam (2)
• Silurian to Devonian of Poland (1)
• Silurian of Australia (5), Belarus (1), Brazil (1), Canada (5: Nova Scotia, Ontario), China (2), the Czech Republic (8), Latvia (1), Lithuania (11), Mexico (1), Norway (2), Poland (2), Sweden (7), the United Kingdom (42), United States (26: Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Wisconsin)
• Uhaku of Sweden (6)
• Letna of the Czech Republic (1)
• Chazyan of United States (1: Alabama)
• Arenig of China (3), the United Kingdom (2)
• Dawan of China (1)
• Ordovician to Silurian of South Africa (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (1), Australia (8), Bolivia (1), Canada (1: Ontario), China (21), the Czech Republic (5), Estonia (11), Iran (1), Ireland (3), Kazakhstan (7), Norway (18), Poland (1), South Africa (1), Spain (1), Sweden (32), the United Kingdom (34), United States (36: Alaska, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia)
Total: 991 collections including 1065 occurrences