†subfamily Sphaerirhynchiinae Savage 1996 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Hebetoechiidae

Parent taxon: Hebetoechiidae according to A. Williams et al. 2002

See also Savage and Goodwin 1998

Sister taxa: Amsdenellinae, Beckmanniinae, Betterbergiinae, Glossinulininae, Hebetoechiinae

Subtaxa: Estonirhynchia Notoconchidium Sphaerirhynchia Tadschikia

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Type: Sphaerirhynchia

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Devonian of Australia (10 collections), Canada (16: Northwest Territories, Nunavut), Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (7), Tajikistan (1), Ukraine (3), United States (10: Nevada, Oklahoma, Tennessee), Uzbekistan (1), Vietnam (1)

• Jaani of Estonia (2), Lithuania (2)

• Niagaran of Canada (1: Québec)

• Silurian to Devonian of United States (1: Oklahoma)

• Silurian of Belarus (1), Canada (4: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Québec), China (2), the Czech Republic (1), Ireland (1), Latvia (1), Lithuania (8), Mexico (9), Poland (1), Sweden (20), Tajikistan (1), Ukraine (5), the United Kingdom (56), United States (11: Indiana, Iowa, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Wisconsin), Venezuela (2)

• Ordovician of China (1)

Total: 180 collections including 191 occurrences

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