Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
Full reference: G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant. 1974. Permian brachiopods of West Texas, II. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 15:233-793
Parent taxon: Orthotetoidea according to A. Williams et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Derbyiidae, Meekellidae, Orthotetellidae, Orthotetidae, Schuchertellidae
Subtaxa: Pulsia Schellwienella
Type: Pulsia
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of China (11 collections), India (1)
• Carboniferous of Australia (10), Canada (23: Alberta, Northwest Territories, Yukon), China (2), Iran (1), Ireland (2), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), the United Kingdom (49), United States (24: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Devonian of Algeria (1), Australia (3), China (4), Colombia (28), Germany (2), Kazakhstan (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (4), South Africa (7), Ukraine (1), United States (4: Montana, Ohio), Venezuela (1), Vietnam (4)
• Silurian to Devonian of United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of China (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (10: Maryland, West Virginia)
• Ordovician of China (2)
Total: 201 collections including 221 occurrences