Strophomenata - Productida - Echinoconchidae
Full reference: F.G. Stehli. 1954. Lower Leonardian Brachiopoda of the Sierra Diablo. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 105(3):257-358
Parent taxon: Echinoconchoidea according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Brunton and Champion 1974 and Shen et al. 2002
Sister taxa: Sentosiidae, Septiconcha
Subtaxa: Echinoconchinae Juresaniinae Parapulchratia Pustulinae
Type: Echinoconchus
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of India (1 collection)
• Permian to Triassic of India (2)
• Permian of Afghanistan (8), Armenia (3), Australia (9), Austria (1), Azerbaijan (2), Bhutan (1), Bolivia (12), Cambodia (1), Canada (60: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), Chile (4), China (125), Croatia (1), Greece (1), Greenland (16), India (14), Indonesia (5), Iran (17), Japan (38), Laos (3), Madagascar (1), Malaysia (5), Mexico (18), Mongolia (10), Myanmar (8), Nepal (16), New Zealand (2), Oman (55), Pakistan (138), Peru (8), the Russian Federation (71), Slovenia (4), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (11), Thailand (9), Tunisia (1), Turkey (28), Ukraine (2), the United Arab Emirates (1), United States (263: Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Vietnam (2)
• Carboniferous to Permian of Laos (1), United States (13: California, Texas)
• Carboniferous of Australia (41), Belize (3), Bolivia (1), Canada (23: Alberta, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (15), India (3), Iran (2), Ireland (3), Libya (1), Malaysia (1), Mexico (3), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (3), Slovenia (2), South Korea (1), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (63), United States (500: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Devonian of United States (1: New Mexico), Vietnam (1)
Total: 1665 collections including 2031 occurrences