Rhombifera - Echinosphaeritidae
Parent taxon: Echinosphaeritidae according to M. Mergl and R. J. Prokop 2006
See also Regnéll 1945 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Arachnocystites, Deutocystites
Subtaxa: Echinosphaerites (Echinosphaerites) Echinosphaerites (Larites) Echinosphaerites aurantium Echinosphaerites barrandei Echinosphaerites concomitans Echinosphaerites difformis Echinosphaerites grandis Echinosphaerites granulatus
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Italy (1 collection)
• Dobrotivian of Morocco (2)
• Uhaku of Latvia (1), Lithuania (1)
• Letna of the Czech Republic (1)
• Ordovician of Algeria (1), Belgium (2), China (1), the Czech Republic (4), Estonia (5), Iran (1), Ireland (4), Latvia (4), Lithuania (6), Morocco (4), Norway (9), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (17), the United Kingdom (3), United States (24: Colorado, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia)
• Tremadoc of the Czech Republic (2)
Total: 95 collections including 97 occurrences
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