Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
Full reference: A. J. Boucot. 1957. Revision of some Silurian and Early Devonian spiriferid genera and erection of Kozlowskiellinae, new subfamily. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 38:311-334
Parent taxon: Eospiriferinae according to A. Williams et al. 2006
See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Jin and Chatterton 1997 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Badainjarania, Endospirifer, Eospirifer, Espella, Havlicekia, Janius, Macropleura, Mictospirifer, Myriospirifer, Nurataella, Striispirifer, Xinanospirifer, Yingwuspirifer
Subtaxa: Hedeina crispa
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of United States (2: New York collections)
• Whitwellian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories)
• Silurian of Australia (4), Canada (8: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Québec), China (2), Greenland (1), Ireland (1), Sweden (1), United States (35: Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Nevada, New York, Tennessee, Wisconsin)
Total: 57 collections each including a single occurrence
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