Strophomena ✝

This page kindly sponsored by Knut Eldjarn

Photos

Photo Gallery

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	28017	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=28017

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Brachiopoda : Strophomenata : Strophomenida : Strophomenidae : Strophomena

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
-	Lophophorata
phylum	Brachiopoda	Cuvier 1805
subphylum	Rhynchonelliformea	Williams et al. 1996
class	Strophomenata	Williams et al 1996
order	Strophomenida	Opik 1934
superfamily	Strophomenoidea	King 1846
family	Strophomenidae	King 1846
subfamily	Strophomeninae	King 1846
genus	Strophomena	Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Strophomena	genus	belongs to Strophomenidae	stated with evidence	Raymond, 1911
Strophomena	genus	belongs to Strophomenidae	stated without evidence	Macomber, 1970
Strophomena	genus	belongs to Strophomeninae	stated with evidence	Mitchell, 1977
Strophomena	genus	belongs to Strophomeninae	stated without evidence	Howe, 1988
Strophomena	genus	belongs to Strophomeninae	stated with evidence	Williams et al., 2000
Strophomena	genus	belongs to Strophomeninae	stated without evidence	Popov et al., 2000
Strophomena	genus	belongs to Strophomenida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Strophomena	genus	belongs to Strophomeninae	stated with evidence	Jakobsen et al., 2014

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

485 - 478 Ma
Paleozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

347 - 331 Ma
Carboniferous

Motility

stationary (based on Strophomenida)

Vision

blind (based on Strophomenata)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Strophomenida)

Ecospace Comments

BODY SIZE: Data from Williams et al. (2000).

Taphonomy

minor ribbing (based on Strophomena)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Strophomena (Actinomena) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)	3	467 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Strophomena (Keilamena) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)	14	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	458 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Strophomena (Pentlandina) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)
Strophomena (Strophomena) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)	9	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	453 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Strophomena aesopea ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Strophomena amoena ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	452 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	452 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Strophomena arcuata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	445 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Strophomena auburnensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Strophomena billingsi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	12	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Strophomena cancellata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Strophomena compressa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Strophomena concordensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	8	458 Ma Middle Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Strophomena depressa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Strophomena dignata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	5	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Strophomena emaciata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	7	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Strophomena filitexta ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	17	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Strophomena folium ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Strophomena girvanensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	458 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	458 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Strophomena grandes ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Strophomena hollii ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Strophomena huronensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	8	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Strophomena incurvata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	48	470 Ma Middle Ordovician	452 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Strophomena inspeciosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Strophomena keilhaui ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	456 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Strophomena lata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	456 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Strophomena magna ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Strophomena maysvillensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	7	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	452 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Strophomena nutans ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	12	458 Ma Middle Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Strophomena occidentalis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Strophomena pectenoides ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	8	443 Ma Silurian	443 Ma Silurian
Strophomena pectinoides ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Strophomena planoconvexa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	25	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	452 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Strophomena planumbona ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	157	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Strophomena plattinensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	8	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Strophomena rukavishnikovae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	466 Ma Middle Ordovician	466 Ma Middle Ordovician
Strophomena satterfieldi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Strophomena scofieldi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Strophomena septata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Strophomena trilobata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	18	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	452 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Strophomena vetusta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	57	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1824	Strophomena Rafinesque and De Blainville
1911	Strophomena Raymond
1970	Strophomena Macomber p. 440
1977	Strophomena Mitchell
1982	Strophomena Owen and Harper
1988	Strophomena Howe p. 216
2000	Strophomena Popov et al.
2000	Strophomena Williams et al. p. 220
2002	Strophomena Sepkoski, Jr.
2014	Strophomena Jakobsen et al.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Raymond P. E. (1911) The Brachiopoda and Ostracoda of the Chazyan, Annals of the Carnegie Museum 7, 215-259

Macomber R. W. (1970) Articulate Brachiopods from the Upper Bighorn Formation (Late Ordovician) of Wyoming, Journal of Paleontology 44 3, 416-450

Mitchell W. I. (1977) The Ordovician Brachiopoda from Pomeroy, Co. Tyrone, The Palaeontographical Society Monographs 130 545, 1-138

Owen A. W., Harper D. A. T. (1982) The Middle Ordovician of the Oslo Region, Norway, 31. The upper Caradoc trilobites and brachiopods from Vestbraten, Ringerike, Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 62, 95-120

Howe H. J. (1988) Articulate brachiopods from the Richmondian of Tennessee, Journal of Paleontology 62 2, 204-218

Popov L. E., Nitikin I. F., et al (2000) Late Ordovician brachiopods from the Otar Member of the Chu-Ili Range, south Kazakhstan, Palaeontology 43 5, 833-870

Williams A., Carlson S. J., et al (2000) Part H Brachiopoda (revised): Volumes 2 & 3, Linguliformea, Craniiformea, Rhynchonelliformea (part)., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, 1-919

Jakobsen K. G., Brock G. A., et al (2014) Brachiopods associated with stromatoporoid mounds from the Middle to Upper Ordovician Cashions Creek Limestone, Tasmania, Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 45 45, 249-265

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

Mindat.org® is an outreach project of the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Mindat® and mindat.org® are registered trademarks of the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy.
Copyright © mindat.org and the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy 1993-2026, except where stated. Most political location boundaries are © OpenStreetMap contributors. Mindat.org relies on the contributions of thousands of members and supporters. Founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph and Ida Chau.
To cite: Ralph, J., Von Bargen, D., Martynov, P., Zhang, J., Que, X., Prabhu, A., Morrison, S. M., Li, W., Chen, W., & Ma, X. (2025). Mindat.org: The open access mineralogy database to accelerate data-intensive geoscience research. American Mineralogist, 110(6), 833–844. doi:10.2138/am-2024-9486.
Privacy Policy - Terms & Conditions - Contact Us / DMCA issues - Report a bug/vulnerability Current server date and time: February 23, 2026 21:41:03 Page updated: August 18, 2025 00:46:52

Go to top of page