†family Sinucostidae Xu and Liu 1983 (lamp shell)
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Sinucostidae
Parent taxon: Spiriferinoidea according to W. H. He and Z. Q. Chen 2016
See also Williams et al. 2006
Sister taxa: Mentzeliidae, Paralaballidae, Spiriferinidae
Subtaxa: Sinucostinae
Type: Sinucosta
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of New Zealand (1 collection)
• Triassic of Austria (24), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (14), Croatia (1), Germany (1), Hungary (6), Iran (1), Italy (5), New Zealand (20), Papua New Guinea (3), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (6), Slovakia (7), Tajikistan (3), Turkey (1)
Total: 96 collections including 106 occurrences