†family Scacchinellidae Licharew 1928 (lamp shell)
Strophomenata - Productida - Scacchinellidae
Full reference: B. Licharew. 1928. Uber einige seltene und neue Brachiopoden aus dem Unterperm des norlichen Kaukasus. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 10:258-289
Parent taxon: Aulostegoidea according to A. Williams et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Aulostegidae, Cooperinidae, Tschernyschewiidae
Subtaxa: Scacchinellinae
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Austria (4 collections), Azerbaijan (1), China (4), India (1), Italy (3), Japan (4), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (7), Slovenia (3), Tajikistan (2), Thailand (1), Tunisia (1), United States (90: Texas)
• Carboniferous of United States (11: Texas)
Total: 133 collections including 139 occurrences