Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Hebetoechiidae
Synonym: Wilsonella Nikiforova 1937 [replaced name]
Full reference: G. A. Cooper and H. M. Muir-Wood. 1951. Brachiopod homonyms. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 41:195-196
Parent taxon: Sphaerirhynchiinae according to A. Williams et al. 2002
See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Cooper and Muir-Wood 1951, Savage and Goodwin 1998 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Estonirhynchia, Notoconchidium, Tadschikia
Subtaxa: Sphaerirhynchia gibbosa Sphaerirhynchia glomerosa Sphaerirhynchia lindenensis Sphaerirhynchia parvula Sphaerirhynchia wilsoni
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (2 collections), Canada (1: Nunavut), Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (7), Ukraine (3), United States (20: Nevada, Oklahoma, Tennessee), Uzbekistan (1)
• Jaani of Lithuania (2)
• Niagaran of Canada (1: Québec)
• Silurian to Devonian of United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Belarus (1), Canada (4: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Québec), Ireland (1), Latvia (1), Lithuania (8), Mexico (9), Poland (1), Sweden (20), Ukraine (5), the United Kingdom (56), United States (11: Indiana, Iowa, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Wisconsin), Venezuela (2)
Total: 158 collections including 169 occurrences
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