†family Lyttoniidae Waagen 1883 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Productida - Lyttoniidae

Full reference: W. Waagen. 1883. Productus Limestone Fossils, Part IV, fas. 2. Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 1(4):391-546

Parent taxon: Lyttonioidea according to A. Williams et al. 2000

Sister taxon: Rigbyellidae

Subtaxa: Linoldhamininae Lyttoniinae Poikilosakinae

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Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of United States (5: Kansas collections)

• Permian of Afghanistan (3), Armenia (16), Australia (3), Azerbaijan (14), Cambodia (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (290), Croatia (5), Greece (2), Guatemala (1), India (3), Indonesia (1), Iran (20), Italy (1), Japan (34), Laos (1), Malaysia (16), Mexico (7), Myanmar (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (81), the Russian Federation (10), Slovenia (3), Tajikistan (4), Thailand (20), Tunisia (8), Ukraine (1), United States (315: California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas), Venezuela (1)

• Pennsylvanian of Belize (1)

• Carboniferous to Permian of United States (1: California)

Total: 871 collections including 1305 occurrences

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