Strophomenata - Productida - Strophalosiidae
Full reference: C. Schuchert. 1913. Class 2. Brachiopoda. Text-book of Palaeontology 1(1):355-420
Parent taxon: Strophalosioidea according to J. B. Waterhouse 2004
See also Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960, Shen et al. 2003 and Williams et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Araksalosiidae, Chonopectidae
Subtaxa: Dasyalosiinae Echinalosiinae Melvillosia Mingenewiinae Strophalosiinae
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (799 collections), Azerbaijan (1), Canada (9: Alberta, British Columbia, Nunavut), China (55), Germany (6), Greenland (14), India (3), Indonesia (1), Iran (1), Japan (5), Lithuania (16), Malaysia (1), Mexico (2), Mongolia (5), Myanmar (2), Nepal (86), New Zealand (35), Oman (12), Pakistan (100), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (58), Thailand (8), the United Kingdom (34), United States (107: Alaska, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Carboniferous to Permian of United States (1: California)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (30: Alaska, Arizona, California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Tennessee, Texas)
• Devonian of China (1), United States (37: Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah)
Total: 1435 collections including 1592 occurrences