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: Ambocoelioidea according to A. Williams et al. 2006
See also Boucot et al. 2008, Brunton and Champion 1974, Goldman and Mitchell 1990, Savage and Baxter 1995 and Savage et al. 1978
Sister taxa: Eudoxinidae, Lazutkiniidae, Verneuiliidae
Subtaxa: Ambocoeliinae Kurtothyris Rhynchospiriferinae
Type: Ambocoelia
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (85 collections), Oman (4), Pakistan (2), the Russian Federation (2), United States (2: Montana)
• Permian to Triassic of China (2)
• Permian of Antarctica (1), Australia (14), Austria (1), Bolivia (29), Brazil (3), Canada (15: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (265), Germany (1), Greece (4), Hungary (4), Indonesia (1), Iran (6), Italy (10), Japan (5), Laos (1), Lithuania (8), Malaysia (2), Mexico (1), Mongolia (1), New Caledonia (2), New Zealand (16), Oman (1), Pakistan (6), Peru (7), the Russian Federation (16), Slovenia (1), Tajikistan (3), Thailand (26), Tunisia (3), Turkey (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (6), United States (166: Alaska, California, Idaho, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, 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 (7: Alberta, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (5), the Czech Republic (1), Germany (4), India (1), Ireland (4), Mexico (2), Peru (2), the United Kingdom (67), United States (455: Alaska, 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)
• Givetian of China (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Devonian to Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (4)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (5), Argentina (4), Australia (12), Bolivia (25), Brazil (7), Canada (93: Alberta, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Mackenzie, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), China (28), Colombia (12), the Czech Republic (14), France (2), Germany (21), Italy (1), Libya (3), Morocco (1), Myanmar (2), Poland (19), the Russian Federation (19), South Africa (8), Spain (2), Tajikistan (2), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (6), United States (520: Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia), Uzbekistan (1), Venezuela (1), Vietnam (3)
• Silurian to Devonian of Pakistan (1)
• Silurian of Canada (9: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon, Yukon Territory), the Czech Republic (8), Iran (1), United States (2: California, Oklahoma)
Total: 2142 collections including 2431 occurrences