†family Ambocoeliidae George 1931 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae

Full reference: T. N. George. 1931. Ambocoelia Hall and certain similar British Spiriferidae. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 87:30-62

Parent taxon: Ambocoelioidea according to A. Williams et al. 2006

See also Boucot et al. 2008, Brunton and Champion 1974, Goldman and Mitchell 1990, Savage and Baxter 1995 and Savage et al. 1978

Sister taxa: Eudoxinidae, Lazutkiniidae, Verneuiliidae

Subtaxa: Ambocoeliinae Kurtothyris Rhynchospiriferinae

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Type: Ambocoelia

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of China (85 collections), Oman (4), Pakistan (2), the Russian Federation (2), United States (2: Montana)

• Permian to Triassic of China (2)

• Permian of Antarctica (1), Australia (14), Austria (1), Bolivia (29), Brazil (3), Canada (15: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (266), Germany (1), Greece (4), Hong Kong (4), Hungary (7), Indonesia (1), Iran (7), Italy (10), Japan (5), Laos (1), Lithuania (8), Malaysia (2), Mexico (1), Mongolia (1), New Caledonia (2), New Zealand (16), Oman (1), Pakistan (6), Peru (7), the Russian Federation (16), Slovenia (1), Tajikistan (3), Thailand (26), Tunisia (3), Türkiye (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (6), United States (168: Alaska, California, Idaho, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)

• Namurian of Thailand (1)

• Carboniferous to Permian of United States (4: California, Texas)

• Carboniferous of Antarctica (1), Argentina (3), Australia (6), Belgium (2), Bolivia (9), Canada (7: Alberta, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (5), Czechia (1), Germany (4), India (1), Ireland (4), Mexico (2), Peru (2), the United Kingdom (69), United States (499: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, California)

• Givetian of China (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1)

• Devonian to Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (4)

• Devonian of Afghanistan (5), Argentina (4), Australia (12), Belgium (3), Bolivia (27), Brazil (7), Canada (93: Alberta, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Mackenzie, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), China (28), Colombia (12), Czechia (14), France (2), Germany (22), Italy (1), Libya (3), Morocco (1), Myanmar (2), Poland (20), the Russian Federation (19), South Africa (8), Spain (2), Tajikistan (1), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (7), United States (542: Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia), Uzbekistan (1), Venezuela (1), Vietnam (3)

• Silurian to Devonian of Pakistan (1)

• Silurian of Canada (9: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon, Yukon Territory), Czechia (8), Iran (1), United States (2: California, Oklahoma)

Total: 2228 collections including 2518 occurrences

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