Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse and S. Piyasin. 1970. Mid-Permian brachiopods from Khao Phrik, Thailand. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 135(3-6):83-197
Parent taxon: Ambocoeliinae according to A. Williams et al. 2006
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Ambocoelia, Attenuatella, Biconvexiella, Bisinocoelia, Cruricella, Crurithyris, Cyrtinoides, Dicoelospirifer, Echinocoelia, Eoplicoplasia, Guangxiispirifer, Metaplasia, Ogilviecoelia, Paracrurithyris, Plicoplasia, Speciothyris, Spinoplasia, Swaicoelia
Subtaxa: Orbicoelia comcincta Orbicoelia cordata Orbicoelia dolomitensis Orbicoelia elongatiformis Orbicoelia extima Orbicoelia flabelliformis Orbicoelia fraterculus Orbicoelia guadalupensis Orbicoelia inflata Orbicoelia magna Orbicoelia tholiaphor Orbicoelia tschernyschewi Orbicoelia tumibilis
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (15 collections), Pakistan (2), the Russian Federation (2), United States (2: Montana)
• Permian to Triassic of China (1)
• Permian of China (56), Greece (4), Hungary (4), Iran (2), Italy (10), Malaysia (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (3), the Russian Federation (1), Tajikistan (2), Thailand (9), Tunisia (2), Turkey (1), United States (69: New Mexico, Texas)
• Carboniferous of Canada (1: Nunavut), China (1), United States (4: Texas)
Total: 193 collections including 197 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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