Strophomenata - Productida - Aulostegidae
Full reference: H. Muir-Wood and G. A. Cooper. 1960. Morphology, classification and life habits of the Productoidea (Brachiopoda). Geological Society of America Memoir 81:1-447
Parent taxon: Aulostegidae according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
Sister taxa: Agelesiinae, Aulosteginae, Ctenalosiinae, Echinosteginae, Edriosteginae, Gondolininae, Institellinae, Rhamnariinae, Taeniothaerinae
Subtaxa: Chonosteges Chonostegoides Costisteges Urushtenia Urushtenoidea
Type: Chonosteges
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Armenia (11 collections), Azerbaijan (14), Cambodia (6), China (55), Guatemala (1), Hong Kong (4), Iran (10), Japan (11), Laos (2), Malaysia (5), Mexico (1), Myanmar (7), the Russian Federation (10), Slovenia (1), Thailand (15), Türkiye (1), Ukraine (4), United States (104: Texas)
Total: 262 collections including 292 occurrences