†superfamily Lyttonioidea Waagen 1883 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Productida

Full reference: W. Waagen. 1883. Productus Limestone Fossils, Part IV, fas. 2. Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 1(4):391-546

Parent taxon: Lyttoniidina according to A. Williams et al. 2000

Sister taxa: Permianelloidea, Richthofenioidea

Subtaxa: Lyttoniidae Rigbyellidae

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Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of United States (5: Kansas collections)

• Permian of Afghanistan (3), Armenia (16), Australia (3), Azerbaijan (14), Cambodia (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (290), Croatia (5), Greece (2), Guatemala (1), India (3), Indonesia (1), Iran (20), Italy (1), Japan (36), Laos (1), Malaysia (16), Mexico (7), Myanmar (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (81), the Russian Federation (10), Slovenia (3), Tajikistan (4), Thailand (24), Tunisia (8), Ukraine (1), United States (316: California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas), Venezuela (1)

• Carboniferous to Permian of United States (1: California)

• Carboniferous of Belize (1)

Total: 878 collections including 1331 occurrences

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