Lingulata - Discinida - Disciniidae
Parent taxon: Disciniidae according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Frassinetti and Covacevich 1999, Hertlein and Grant IV 1944, Martin 1904, Pérez et al. 2023 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Discinisca circularis Discinisca conviva Discinisca cumingii Discinisca fallens Discinisca holdeni Discinisca infraoolithica Discinisca jenkinsi Discinisca kamikatetuensis Discinisca laevis Discinisca lamellosa Discinisca loeli Discinisca lugubris Discinisca messii Discinisca oregonensis Discinisca perrini Discinisca porvenir Discinisca scutellum Discinisca steiningeri Discinisca strigata Discinisca yaroslavensis
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (1 collection), United States (1: California)
• Pliocene of Italy (2), Peru (3), United States (7: Florida, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Miocene of Argentina (4), Austria (1), Belgium (2), Chile (1), Poland (4), United States (23: California, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey)
• Oligocene of Austria (1), Germany (11), United States (1: California)
• Eocene of New Zealand (1), United States (3: California, Washington)
• Cretaceous of Chile (3), United States (17: Arizona, Colorado)
• Jurassic of Chile (1), Greenland (4), Norway (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (17)
• Triassic of Austria (1), Germany (2), Hungary (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Utah)
• Devonian of Ghana (1)
Total: 120 collections including 121 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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