Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
Parent taxon: Cyrtioidea according to A. Williams et al. 2006
See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Jin and Chatterton 1997 and Villas and Cocks 1996
Sister taxa: Costispiriferidae, Hedeinopsidae
Subtaxa: Cyrtiinae Eospiriferinae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of United States (1: Alaska collection)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (1), 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 (8: Alaska, New York, Tennessee), Uzbekistan (1), Vietnam (2)
• Whitwellian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories)
• Jaani of Estonia (9), Lithuania (4)
• Niagaran of Canada (3: Québec), United States (1: Indiana)
• Silurian to Devonian of Australia (1)
• Silurian of Afghanistan (1), Australia (17), Belarus (2), Canada (49: British Columbia, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (65), the Czech Republic (28), Estonia (12), Greenland (1), Iran (3), Ireland (1), Kazakhstan (5), Latvia (1), Lithuania (29), Mexico (12), Mongolia (5), Morocco (1), Norway (3), the Russian Federation (10), Spain (2), Sweden (36), Tajikistan (1), Ukraine (8), the United Kingdom (36), United States (142: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Wisconsin), Venezuela (3)
• Ordovician of Australia (2), China (22), Spain (1)
Total: 596 collections including 906 occurrences