Strophomenata - Productida - Linoproductidae
Synonym: Grandaurispininae Lazarev 1986 [replaced name]
Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1986. New late Palaeozoic invertebrate taxa. Bulletin of the Indian Geologists' Association 19(1):1-8
Parent taxon: Linoproductidae according to A. Williams et al. 2007
See also Williams et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Anidanthinae, Linispininae, Linoproductinae, Selloproductus, Siphonosiinae
Subtaxa: Cancrinella Grandaurispina Holotricharina Paucispinauria Pinegeria Spargospinosa Stepanoviella Terrakea
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (454 collections), Austria (1), Canada (30: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (31), India (4), Indonesia (3), Iran (2), Japan (14), Laos (3), Mexico (6), Mongolia (19), Nepal (17), New Zealand (25), Oman (5), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (136), Slovenia (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (7), Tajikistan (1), Thailand (4), Ukraine (1), United States (205: Alaska, California, Idaho, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Venezuela (5)
• Carboniferous to Permian of Laos (1)
• Carboniferous of Canada (1: Nunavut), China (3), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (3), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (42: Alaska, California, Illinois, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
Total: 1029 collections including 1112 occurrences