Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
Parent taxon: Pennospiriferinoidea according to A. Williams et al. 2006
Sister taxa: Balatonospiridae, Lepismatinidae, Paraspiriferinidae, Pennospiriferinidae, Punctospiriferidae, Reticulariinidae, Sarganostegidae, Spiropunctiferidae
Subtaxa: Crenispirifer Lancangjiangia Metriolepis Pseudospiriferina Spiriferellina Sulcispiriferina Tulungospirifer
Type: Spiriferellina
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (42 collections), India (8), Nepal (4), the United Arab Emirates (1)
• Permian of Afghanistan (4), Armenia (5), Australia (16), Azerbaijan (6), Bolivia (1), Cambodia (1), Canada (4: Nunavut, Yukon), China (91), Germany (1), Greece (1), Greenland (7), India (1), Indonesia (4), Iran (7), Japan (7), Laos (1), Lithuania (5), Malaysia (13), Mexico (6), Myanmar (5), Nepal (6), New Zealand (3), Oman (3), Pakistan (103), the Russian Federation (10), Tajikistan (5), Thailand (18), Tunisia (1), Turkey (2), Ukraine (10), the United Arab Emirates (1), the United Kingdom (17), United States (192: Alaska, Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas), Venezuela (1)
• Westphalian of United States (1: Kentucky)
• Pennsylvanian of Canada (1: Nunavut), United States (2: Alaska, California)
• Namurian of Argentina (1), Australia (2)
• Chesterian of United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Carboniferous to Permian of United States (1: California)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (3), Australia (4), Belgium (1), Ireland (2), Morocco (1), South Korea (1), the United Kingdom (13), United States (38: Alaska, Arkansas, Nevada, Oklahoma)
• Mississippian of United States (3: Alaska, California)
• Devonian to Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 689 collections including 898 occurrences