Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
Parent taxon: Spiriferinoidea according to W. H. He and Z. Q. Chen 2016
See also Brunton and Champion 1974, Hoare 1961 and Williams et al. 2006
Sister taxa: Mentzeliidae, Paralaballidae, Sinucostidae
Subtaxa: Jiangdaspiriferinae Qinghaispiriferininae Spiriferininae Triadispirinae
Type: Spiriferina
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Algeria (3 collections), Argentina (5), Austria (30), Bulgaria (8), Canada (1: Yukon), Chile (36), France (51), Germany (17), Gibraltar (1), Greece (3), Greenland (11), Hungary (73), Italy (4), Luxembourg (1), New Zealand (16), Portugal (24), Saudi Arabia (13), Serbia (4), Slovakia (3), Somalia (1), Spain (140), Switzerland (1), Timor-Leste (1), Tunisia (1), Türkiye (5), the United Kingdom (5), United States (2: Alaska)
• Triassic of Austria (10), Bosnia and Herzegovina (8), Canada (7: British Columbia), Chile (3), China (12), Colombia (1), Hungary (16), India (2), Indonesia (7), Iran (1), Italy (13), Japan (1), Montenegro (1), New Zealand (9), Papua New Guinea (4), Poland (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (19), Serbia (1), Slovakia (3), Slovenia (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Thailand (1), Timor-Leste (1), Türkiye (1), Ukraine (2), the United Arab Emirates (3), United States (21: Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada)
• Permian of Greenland (3), Guatemala (1), Iran (3), Italy (4), Laos (1), Malaysia (1), Pakistan (28), the Russian Federation (1), United States (19: Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming)
• Carboniferous of India (1), United States (20: Alaska, Arizona, California, Iowa, Kentucky, Montana, Nevada, Utah)
• Silurian of China (1)
Total: 695 collections including 905 occurrences