Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Paraspiriferinidae
Invalid subtaxa: Maia Fredericks 1924 [replaced name], Mansuyella Reed 1944 [replaced name], Spiriferina (Mansuyella) Reed 1944 [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: Paraspiriferinidae according to A. Williams et al. 2006
See also Cooper and Grant 1976, Cooper and Muir-Wood 1951, Reed 1944 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Lamniplica, Paraspiriferina, Yaonoiella, Zaissania
Subtaxa: Callispirina austrina Callispirina frontisquamosa Callispirina manangensis Callispirina multipunctata Callispirina ornata Callispirina rotunda Callispirina rotundella Callispirina transversa Spiriferina (Mansuyella) holzapfeli
Type: Spiriferina ornata
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Canada (1: Nunavut collection), China (13), India (1), Indonesia (1), Japan (4), Laos (1), Malaysia (1), Myanmar (1), Nepal (6), Oman (9), Pakistan (46), the Russian Federation (4), Thailand (18), Türkiye (2), United States (1: Texas), Vietnam (1)
• Carboniferous of China (1), the Russian Federation (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)
Total: 113 collections including 116 occurrences
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