Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
Parent taxon: Cyrtiidae according to A. Williams et al. 2006
See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Jin and Chatterton 1997 and Villas and Cocks 1996
Sister taxon: Cyrtiinae
Subtaxa: Badainjarania Endospirifer Eospirifer Espella Havlicekia Hedeina Janius Macropleura Mictospirifer Myriospirifer Nurataella Striispirifer Xinanospirifer Yingwuspirifer
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Afghanistan (1 collection), Australia (14), Austria (3), Canada (1: Yukon Territory), China (12), the Czech Republic (9), France (1), Germany (2), Kazakhstan (1), Mongolia (1), New Zealand (3), the Russian Federation (11), Spain (1), Tajikistan (4), Ukraine (1), United States (7: Alaska, New York, Tennessee), Uzbekistan (1), Vietnam (2)
• Whitwellian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories)
• Jaani of Estonia (8), Lithuania (3)
• Niagaran of Canada (3: Québec), United States (1: Indiana)
• Silurian to Devonian of Australia (1)
• Silurian of Afghanistan (1), Australia (16), Belarus (1), Canada (47: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Québec), China (64), the Czech Republic (17), Estonia (6), Greenland (1), Iran (3), Ireland (1), Kazakhstan (5), Latvia (1), Lithuania (19), Mexico (12), Mongolia (5), Norway (2), the Russian Federation (8), Spain (2), Sweden (33), Tajikistan (1), Ukraine (6), the United Kingdom (31), United States (130: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Wisconsin), Venezuela (3)
• Ordovician of Australia (2), China (22), Spain (1)
Total: 534 collections including 704 occurrences