Strophomenata - Productida - Productidae
Alternative spelling: Dictyoclostidae
Parent taxon: Productidae according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Shen et al. 2002, Shen et al. 2003 and Shen et al. 2003
Sister taxa: Buxtoniinae, Leioproductinae, Yakovleviinae
Subtaxa: Dictyoclostini Liraplectini Ozora Pseudoantiquatonia
Type: Dictyoclostus
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Afghanistan (2 collections), Australia (24), Austria (2), Bolivia (23), Canada (2: British Columbia, Nunavut), China (58), India (1), Indonesia (12), Iran (4), Japan (4), Malaysia (2), Mexico (5), Nepal (5), Oman (2), Pakistan (26), Peru (4), Slovenia (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (57: Alaska, Arizona, California, Kansas, New Mexico, Texas), Vietnam (1)
• Virgilian of Mexico (1), United States (1: Ohio)
• Desmoinesian of United States (21: New Mexico, Pennsylvania)
• Atokan of United States (2: Missouri)
• Pennsylvanian of Belize (1), Canada (4: Nunavut), China (1), United States (3: Alaska, California)
• Chesterian of Canada (3: Alberta, Northwest Territories), United States (10: Arizona, Indiana, Montana, Utah, Virginia)
• Osagean of Canada (3: Alberta, Northwest Territories), United States (4: Indiana, Montana, Virginia)
• Carboniferous to Permian of Bolivia (1), Laos (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (4: California)
• Mississippian of Canada (1: Nova Scotia), United States (17: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah)
• Carboniferous of Australia (3), Bolivia (7), Canada (10: Alberta, Northwest Territories, Yukon), China (3), Egypt (2), India (2), Ireland (2), Libya (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), the United Kingdom (49), United States (81: Alaska, California, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Virginia)
• Devonian of United States (9: Montana)
Total: 489 collections including 591 occurrences