Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Full reference: T. N. George. 1931. Ambocoelia Hall and certain similar British Spiriferidae. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 87:30-62
Parent taxon: Ambocoeliinae according to A. Williams et al. 2006
See also Brunton and Champion 1974, Savage et al. 1978 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Ambocoelia, Attenuatella, Biconvexiella, Bisinocoelia, Cruricella, Cyrtinoides, Dicoelospirifer, Echinocoelia, Eoplicoplasia, Guangxiispirifer, Metaplasia, Ogilviecoelia, Orbicoelia, Paracrurithyris, Plicoplasia, Speciothyris, Spinoplasia, Swaicoelia
Subtaxa: Crurithyris alaskensis Crurithyris aquilonia Crurithyris arcuata Crurithyris calendae Crurithyris changmeensis Crurithyris clannyana Crurithyris expansa Crurithyris extumida Crurithyris inflata Crurithyris levicula Crurithyris longa Crurithyris longirostris Crurithyris longtanica Crurithyris major Crurithyris muliensis Crurithyris opalinus Crurithyris parva Crurithyris planoconvexa Crurithyris sulcata Crurithyris telleri Crurithyris tianshengqiaoensis Crurithyris uralica Crurithyris urei Crurithyris wampensis
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (28 collections)
• Permian to Triassic of China (1)
• Permian of Antarctica (1), Austria (1), Bolivia (29), Canada (6: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (69), Germany (1), Iran (1), Japan (1), Laos (1), Lithuania (8), Malaysia (2), New Zealand (1), Peru (7), the Russian Federation (4), Slovenia (1), Tajikistan (1), Thailand (1), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (6), United States (86: Alaska, California, Idaho, Kansas, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Namurian of Thailand (1)
• Carboniferous to Permian of United States (4: California, Texas)
• Carboniferous of Antarctica (1), Argentina (3), Australia (6), Belgium (2), Bolivia (9), Canada (6: Alberta, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), China (4), the Czech Republic (1), Germany (4), Ireland (4), Mexico (2), Peru (2), the United Kingdom (67), United States (438: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, California)
• Devonian to Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (4)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (4), Australia (2), Canada (4: Alberta, Nunavut), China (3), the Czech Republic (1), France (2), Germany (20), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (29: Alaska, Montana, Nevada)
Total: 890 collections including 928 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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