†family Cooperinidae Pajaud 1968 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Productida - Cooperinidae

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

Sister taxa: Aulostegidae, Scacchinellidae, Tschernyschewiidae

Subtaxa: Cooperininae Epiceliinae

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Type: Cooperina

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Cambodia (1 collection), China (5), Greece (7), Japan (1), Pakistan (2), Thailand (7), Tunisia (2), United States (61: Texas), Venezuela (3)

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

Total: 90 collections including 106 occurrences

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