†subfamily Chonopectinae Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960 (lamp shell)
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
Full reference: H. Muir-Wood and G. A. Cooper. 1960. Morphology, classification and life habits of the Productoidea (Brachiopoda). Geological Society of America Memoir 81:1-447
Parent taxon: Productellidae according to H. Muir-Wood and G. A. Cooper 1960
See also Campbell and Engel 1963 and Williams et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Chaoiellinae, Overtoniinae, Plicatiferinae, Productellinae, Productinae, Productinidae
Subtaxa: none
Type: Chonopectus
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Chonopectinae in the database