Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Alternative spelling: Spirifer (Ambocoelia)
Parent taxon: Ambocoeliinae according to A. Williams et al. 2006
See also Goldman and Mitchell 1990, Schellwien 1900 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Attenuatella, Biconvexiella, Bisinocoelia, Cruricella, Crurithyris, Cyrtinoides, Dicoelospirifer, Dionacoelia, Echinocoelia, Eoplicoplasia, Guangxiispirifer, Metaplasia, Ogilviecoelia, Orbicoelia, Paracrurithyris, Plicoplasia, Speciothyris, Spinoplasia, Swaicoelia
Subtaxa: Ambocoelia tuberculata Ambocoelia umbonata Ambocoelia urii Spirifer (Ambocoelia) circinatus
Type: Ambocoelia umbonata
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of China (1 collection), Laos (1), Slovenia (1), United States (2: Alaska)
• Carboniferous of China (1), India (1), United States (11: Alaska, Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Nevada)
• Devonian of Australia (6), Bolivia (1), Canada (37: British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Yukon), China (1), Colombia (12), the Czech Republic (9), Germany (5), the Russian Federation (4), South Africa (8), Spain (1), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (1), United States (353: Alaska, Arizona, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia), Venezuela (1), Vietnam (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of Pakistan (1)
• Silurian of Canada (1: Yukon), United States (1: California)
Total: 465 collections including 472 occurrences
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