Strophomenata - Productida - Paucispiniferidae
Full reference: H. Muir-Wood and G. A. Cooper. 1960. Morphology, classification and life habits of the Productoidea (Brachiopoda). Geological Society of America Memoir 81:1-447
Parent taxon: Paucispiniferini according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Anemonaria, Caricula, Caucasoproductus, Elliottella, Hexiproductus, Jiguliconcha, Jinomarginifera, Lamnimargus, Lampangella, Liosotella, Oncosarina, Paucispinifera, Retimarginifera, Shanxiproductus, Transennatia
Subtaxa: Hystriculina convexa Hystriculina dugoutensis Hystriculina hystricula Hystriculina minima Hystriculina orbignyana Hystriculina pumila Hystriculina sinica Hystriculina sulcata Hystriculina ventroplana Hystriculina wabashensis
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Bolivia (20 collections), Canada (1: Nunavut), China (5), United States (62: Kansas, Montana, Nevada, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Carboniferous to Permian of United States (3: Texas)
• Carboniferous of Canada (2: Nunavut), China (2), Spain (1), United States (180: Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah)
Total: 276 collections including 299 occurrences
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