Strophomenata - Productida - Aulostegidae
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: Echinosteginae according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Archaiosteges, Baissalosteges, Echinosteges, Girlasia, Howseia, Limbella, Sphenosteges, Spirisosium, Strophalosiella, Strophalosiina, Xenosteges
Subtaxa: Edriosteges acuminatus Edriosteges beedei Edriosteges circularis Edriosteges compactus Edriosteges guangxiensis Edriosteges medlicottianus Edriosteges multispinosus Edriosteges ogbinensis Edriosteges plenus Edriosteges poyangensis Edriosteges subplicatilis Edriosteges tenuispinosus Edriosteges tumitus
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Armenia (6 collections), Azerbaijan (1), China (75), Guatemala (1), Iran (6), Japan (4), Malaysia (1), Mexico (1), Oman (2), Pakistan (5), the Russian Federation (2), United States (89: Texas)
Total: 193 collections including 213 occurrences
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