†family Mucrospiriferidae Pitrat 1965 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae

Parent taxon: Delthyridoidea according to A. Williams et al. 2006

See also Savage et al. 1978

Sister taxa: Acrospiriferidae, Cyrtinopsidae, Delthyrididae, Filispiriferidae, Hysterolitidae

Subtaxa: Mucrospiriferinae Tylothyridinae

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Type: Mucrospirifer

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of Australia (16 collections), Canada (1: Alberta), China (6), Germany (3), Ireland (1), Libya (2), Mexico (2), the United Kingdom (9), United States (33: Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Texas)

• Givetian of United States (1: Missouri)

• Devonian of Afghanistan (2), Belgium (1), Brazil (8), Canada (40: Alberta, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Mackenzie, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Ontario), China (6), Colombia (26), France (10), Germany (12), Iran (7), Libya (8), Mauritania (3), Poland (11), the Russian Federation (8), Spain (4), United States (863: Alaska, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin), Venezuela (4), Vietnam (3)

Total: 1090 collections including 1261 occurrences

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