†family Psilocamaridae Grant 1965 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Psilocamaridae

Full reference: R. E. Grant. 1965. The brachiopod superfamily Stenoscismatacea. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Contributions 148(2):1-192

Parent taxon: Stenoscismatoidea according to A. V. Pakhnevich 2019

See also Waterhouse 2004 and Williams et al. 2002

Sister taxa: Atriboniidae, Stenoscismatidae

Subtaxa: Psilocamarinae Zhejiangellinae

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of Kazakhstan (1 collection)

• Permian of Armenia (2), Australia (2), Azerbaijan (2), China (39), Indonesia (3), Iran (1), Japan (1), Mongolia (4), New Zealand (2), Oman (1), Pakistan (20), the Russian Federation (13), Tajikistan (5), Thailand (5), Ukraine (1), United States (4: Alaska, Texas)

• Virgilian of United States (1: Texas)

• Carboniferous of China (1), United States (3: Missouri, Texas)

Total: 111 collections including 135 occurrences

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