Rhynchonellata

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<==Rhynchonellata
   |  i. s.: Tropidoleptus Hall 1857 [Tropidoleptidae]
   |           |--*T. carinatus (Conrad 1839) [=Strophomena carinata]
   |           |    |--T. c. carinatus
   |           |    `--T. c. nigerensis
   |           `--T. freuloni
   |--Orthida
   |    |--Hebertella
   |    |--Hesperorthis
   |    |--Resserella
   |    |--Dinorthis
   |    `--Dalejina Havliček 1953 [Rhipidomellidae]
   |         |--D. hybrida (Sowerby in Murchison 1839) [=Orthis hybrida, Rhipidomella hybrida]
   |         `--D. pentlandica (Davidson 1869)
   `--+--Pentamerida
      `--+--Rhynchonellida
         `--+--Atrypida
            `--+--Spiriferida
               `--+--Terebratulida
                  |    |  i. s.: Terebratula tayloriana Colenso 1845
                  |    |         Obovithyris
                  |    `--Terebratellidina
                  |         |  i. s.: Terebratella inconspicua
                  |         `--Megathyrididae
                  |              |--Argyrotheca cordata
                  |              |--Megathyris
                  |              `--Gwynia capsula (Jeffreys 1859)
                  `--Athyridida [Athyrididina, Athyridoidea]
                       |--Athyrididae
                       |--Nucleospira Hall 1859 [Nucleospiridae]
                       |    |--*N. ventricosa (Hall 1857) [=Spirifer ventricosa]
                       |    |--N. pisum (Sowerby 1839) [=Spirifer pisum]
                       |    `--N. robusta
                       |--Meristellidae
                       |    |--Hyattidina Schuchert 1913
                       |    |    |--H. junea (Billings 1866)
                       |    |    `--H. remota Modzalevskaya 2003
                       |    `--Meristina Hall 1967 [Meristellinae]
                       |         |--*M. maria Hall 1863
                       |         |--M. norilica (Nikiforova in Nikiforova & Andreeva 1961) (see below for synonymy)
                       |         |--M. obtusa (Sowerby 1818) [=Terebratula obtusa]
                       |         `--M. podolica (Nikiforova 1954) [=Meristella podolica]
                       `--Meristidae
                            |--Camarophorella Hall & Clarke 1893 [Camarophorellinae]
                            |    `--C. buckleyi
                            `--Rowleyellinae
                                 |--Rowleyella Weller 1911
                                 `--Mahuathyris Sun, Ma et al. 2004
                                      `--*M. circularis Sun, Ma et al. 2004

Meristina norilica (Nikiforova in Nikiforova & Andreeva 1961) [=Meristella norilica, Cryptothyrella norilica]

* Type species of genus indicated

References

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Chen, Z.-Q., G. R. Shi & L.-P. Zhan. 2003. Early Carboniferous athyridid brachiopods from the Qaidam Basin, northwest China. Journal of Paleontology 77: 844-862.

Colenso, W. 1845. Memoranda of an excursion, made in the Northern Island of New Zealand, in the summer of 1841-2; intended as a contribution towards the natural productions of the New Zealand groupe: with particular reference to their botany (concluded). Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science 2: 241-308.

Giribet, G., D. L. Distel, M. Polz, W. Sterrer & W. C. Wheeler. 2000. Triploblastic relationships with emphasis on the acoelomates and the position of Gnathostomulida, Cycliophora, Plathelminthes, and Chaetognatha: A combined approach of 18S rDNA sequences and morphology. Systematic Biology 49: 539-562.

Modzalevskaya, T. L. 2003. Silurian and Devonian brachiopods from Severnaya Zemlya (Russian Arctic). Geodiversitas 25 (1): 73-107.

Musteikis, P., & T. L. Modzalevskaya. 2002. Some Silurian brachiopods from Lithuania and their palaeobiogeographical significance. Palaeontology 45 (3): 595-626.

Prothero, D. R. 1998. Bringing Fossils to Life: An introduction to paleobiology. WCB McGraw-Hill: Boston.

Racheboeuf, P. R., R. Gourvennec, M. Deynoux & D. Brice. 2004. The Devonian of the Hodh area (Islamic Republic of Mauritania): Paleontology and stratigraphy. Journal of Paleontology 78 (1): 98-110.

Salvini-Plawen, L. v. 1986. Brachiopoda. In Stygofauna Mundi: A Faunistic, Distributional, and Ecological Synthesis of the World Fauna inhabiting Subterranean Waters (including the Marine Interstitial) (L. Botosaneanu, ed.) p. 147. E. J. Brill / Dr. W. Backhuys: Leiden.

Sun, Y., X. Ma, A. Baliński & Y. Zhang. 2004. A new meristid brachiopod genus from the Lower Carboniferous of Guizhou, China. Journal of Paleontology 78 (1): 240-244.

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