†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 (4), Japan (4), 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