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: Marginiferinae according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Shen et al. 2003
Sister taxa: Breileeniini, Incisiini, Liaotarimella, Marginiferidae, Paucispiniferidae, Trachomarginifera
Subtaxa: Entacanthadus Jipuproductus Marginifera Otariella Probolionia Spinomarginifera
Type: Marginifera
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (9 collections), India (2), Pakistan (1)
• Permian to Triassic of India (3)
• Permian of Afghanistan (6), Armenia (13), Austria (1), Azerbaijan (27), Cambodia (1), Canada (3: Nunavut), China (368), Croatia (2), East Timor (1), Greece (32), Greenland (5), Hungary (1), India (2), Indonesia (2), Iran (120), Italy (3), Japan (13), Laos (1), Madagascar (1), Malaysia (5), Mexico (10), Mongolia (3), Nepal (3), Oman (2), Pakistan (228), the Russian Federation (38), Slovenia (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Tajikistan (1), Thailand (28), Tunisia (1), Turkey (23), Ukraine (3), the United Arab Emirates (1), United States (115: Alaska, Arizona, Kansas, Oregon, Texas), Vietnam (1)
• Carboniferous of Canada (1: Nunavut), China (5), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (4), United States (59: Alaska, Arizona, California, Kansas, Kentucky, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 1151 collections including 1636 occurrences