Strophomenata - Productida - Echinoconchidae
Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1981. Early Permian brachiopods from Ko Yao Noi and near Krabi, southern Thailand. The Permian Stratigraphy and Palaeontology of Southern Thailand. Geological Survey of Thailand Memoir 4(2):45-213
Parent taxon: Echinoconchidae according to A. Williams et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Echinoconchinae, Juresaniinae, Parapulchratia
Subtaxa: Etheridgina Pustula Scutepustula Septarinia
Type: Pustula
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of India (1 collection)
• Permian to Triassic of India (1)
• Permian of China (1), Laos (1), Mongolia (2), the Russian Federation (16), United States (13: Alaska, Texas)
• Carboniferous to Permian of Laos (1)
• Carboniferous of Australia (18), Canada (8: Alberta, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), China (3), Ireland (3), Libya (1), the United Kingdom (33), United States (28: Alaska, California, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas)
Total: 130 collections including 188 occurrences