Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Full reference: W. King. 1846. Remarks on certain genera belonging to the class Palliobranchiata. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 1 183:26-42
Parent taxon: Spiriferidae according to A. Williams et al. 2006
See also Campbell and Engel 1963 and Waterhouse 2004
Sister taxa: Allanaria, Brachythyrinae, Delthyrinae, Gypospiriferinae, Prospirinae, Purdonellinae, Sergospiriferinae
Subtaxa: Ectochoristites Grandispirifer Larispirifer Latispirifer Mesochorispira Spirifer Warsawia
Type: Spirifer
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of the United Kingdom (2 collections)
• Triassic of Germany (1), Italy (2), New Zealand (2), United States (1: Nevada)
• Permian of Australia (24), Austria (1), Canada (12: Nunavut, Yukon), China (16), India (7), Indonesia (3), Iran (2), Italy (5), Japan (1), Laos (2), Pakistan (13), the Russian Federation (3), Slovenia (1), Tajikistan (1), United States (6: Alaska, Texas)
• Namurian of Australia (4)
• Carboniferous to Permian of Bolivia (1)
• Carboniferous of Afghanistan (4), Australia (41), Belize (4), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Brazil (1), Canada (78: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (11), Egypt (2), India (5), Ireland (2), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), Peru (4), the Russian Federation (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), the United Kingdom (42), United States (303: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Idaho-Utah, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia)
• Couvinien of Australia (1)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (2), Algeria (2), Brazil (2), Canada (8: New Brunswick, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (2), Colombia (2), France (5), Germany (4), Italy (2), Luxembourg (1), Morocco (7), New Zealand (1), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (3), Tajikistan (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (164: Alaska, California, Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia), Vietnam (1)
• Niagaran of United States (1: Ohio)
• Silurian to Devonian of Algeria (2), Morocco (1)
• Silurian of Australia (1), Morocco (4), United States (46: Alaska, California, Maryland, New York, West Virginia)
• Ordovician of Canada (1: Nunavut)
Total: 881 collections including 1136 occurrences