Rostroconchia - Conocardiida - Eopteriidae
Full reference: E. Billings. 1865. Palaeozoic fossils, volume 1. Geological Survey of Canada 1-426
Parent taxon: Eopteriidae according to J. Pojeta and B. Runnegar 1976
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Miller 1889, Pojeta et al. 1972 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Euchasma, Pseudoeuchasma, Talacastella, Wanwanella
Subtaxa: Eopteria agustini Eopteria aiteneria Eopteria alta Eopteria asiatica Eopteria conocardiformis Eopteria crassa Eopteria flora Eopteria ornata Eopteria richardsoni Eopteria struszi Eopteria trilobita Eopteria ventricosa
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Whiterockian of United States (2: Nevada collections)
• Ordovician of Australia (7), Canada (2: Newfoundland, Quebec), France (1), Kazakhstan (1), North Korea (1), United States (31: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, Texas, Vermont)
• Cressagian of South Korea (1)
• Tremadoc of Argentina (1)
• Cambrian of Australia (13)
Total: 60 collections including 64 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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