Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
Parent taxon: Spiriferinidae according to W. H. He and Z. Q. Chen 2016
See also Williams et al. 2006
Sister taxa: Jiangdaspiriferinae, Qinghaispiriferininae, Triadispirinae
Subtaxa: Calyptoria Spiriferina
Type: Spiriferina
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Algeria (2 collections), Argentina (5), Austria (1), Bulgaria (4), Canada (1: Yukon), Chile (36), France (18), Germany (15), Greece (1), Greenland (11), Hungary (2), Italy (1), Luxembourg (1), New Zealand (16), Portugal (1), Saudi Arabia (8), Serbia (3), Slovakia (3), Somalia (1), Spain (6), Switzerland (1), Timor-Leste (1), Tunisia (1), Türkiye (4), the United Kingdom (5)
• Triassic of Austria (4), Bosnia and Herzegovina (8), Canada (7: British Columbia), Chile (3), China (3), Colombia (1), Hungary (16), India (2), Indonesia (7), Iran (1), Italy (13), Japan (1), Montenegro (1), New Zealand (9), Papua New Guinea (4), Poland (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (9), Serbia (1), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Thailand (1), Timor-Leste (1), Türkiye (1), Ukraine (1), the United Arab Emirates (3), United States (21: Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada)
• Permian of Greenland (3), Iran (3), Italy (4), Laos (1), Malaysia (1), Pakistan (28), the Russian Federation (1), United States (19: Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming)
• Carboniferous of India (1), United States (19: Alaska, Arizona, Iowa, Kentucky, Montana, Nevada, Utah)
• Silurian of China (1)
Total: 353 collections including 393 occurrences