†subfamily Stenoscismatinae Oehlert 1887 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae

Parent taxon: Stenoscismatidae according to J. B. Waterhouse 2004

See also Grant 1965 and Williams et al. 2002

Sister taxa: Cyrolexinae, Nantanella, Proatriboniinae, Septacamera, Torynechinae

Subtaxa: Atribonium Camerisma Coledium Liufaia Sedecularia Sedenticellula Stenoscisma Torynechus

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Afghanistan (1 collection), Australia (22), Azerbaijan (1), Bolivia (15), Cambodia (1), Canada (21: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (63), East Timor (1), Germany (2), Greece (2), Greenland (29), India (3), Indonesia (10), Iran (1), Italy (5), Japan (7), Laos (1), Lithuania (16), Madagascar (1), Malaysia (6), Mexico (4), Mongolia (2), Myanmar (8), Nepal (3), New Zealand (3), Oman (2), Pakistan (97), the Russian Federation (22), Slovenia (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (8), Tajikistan (3), Thailand (10), Tunisia (3), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (26), United States (338: Alaska, California, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas)

• Pennsylvanian of Canada (1: Nunavut), China (1), United States (1: Alaska)

• Namurian of Thailand (1)

• Chesterian of United States (10: Arizona, Arkansas, Montana, Oklahoma)

• Carboniferous of Australia (12), Bolivia (1), Canada (3: Nunavut, Yukon), China (2), the Czech Republic (1), India (8), Italy (1), Libya (1), the Russian Federation (5), South Korea (1), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), the United Kingdom (12), United States (54: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)

• Mississippian of United States (7: Alaska, Arizona, California, Kentucky)

• Devonian of Canada (5: Alberta, Ontario), France (1), Italy (1), United States (40: Arizona, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, New York)

Total: 915 collections including 1217 occurrences

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