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: Ambocoeliidae according to A. Williams et al. 2006
See also Goldman and Mitchell 1990
Sister taxa: Kurtothyris, Rhynchospiriferinae
Subtaxa: Ambocoelia Attenuatella Biconvexiella Bisinocoelia Cruricella Crurithyris Cyrtinoides Dicoelospirifer Echinocoelia Eoplicoplasia Guangxiispirifer Metaplasia Ogilviecoelia Orbicoelia Paracrurithyris Plicoplasia Speciothyris Spinoplasia Swaicoelia
Type: Ambocoelia
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (85 collections), 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 (264), Germany (1), Greece (4), Hungary (4), Indonesia (1), Iran (6), 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), Turkey (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (6), United States (166: 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), the Czech Republic (1), Germany (4), India (1), Ireland (4), Mexico (2), Peru (2), the United Kingdom (67), United States (453: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, 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)
• Devonian to Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (4)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (4), Argentina (4), Australia (8), Bolivia (25), Brazil (5), Canada (51: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), China (6), Colombia (12), the Czech Republic (10), France (2), Germany (20), Morocco (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (7), South Africa (8), Spain (1), Tajikistan (1), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (6), United States (446: Alaska, Arizona, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia), Venezuela (1), Vietnam (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of Pakistan (1)
• Silurian of Canada (9: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon, Yukon Territory), the Czech Republic (8), Iran (1), United States (1: California)
Total: 1940 collections including 2124 occurrences