†family Chonopectidae Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960 (lamp shell)
Strophomenata - Productida - Chonopectidae
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: Strophalosioidea according to A. Williams et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Araksalosiidae, Strophalosiidae
Subtaxa: none
Type: Chonopectus
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of China (5 collections)
• Namurian of Thailand (1)
• Carboniferous of Germany (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (1: Iowa)
Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence