Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Strophopleuridae
Full reference: C. O. Dunbar. 1955. Permian brachiopod faunas of central east Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 110(3):1-169
Parent taxon: Pterospiriferinae according to A. Williams et al. 2006
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Waterhouse 2004
Sister taxa: Alispirifer, Haplospirifer, Johncarteria, Pteroplecta, Spiriferinaella, Xizispirifer, Yukonospirifer
Subtaxa: Pterospirifer alatus Pterospirifer terechovi Pterospirifer waageni
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (2 collections), Canada (6: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (2), Germany (4), Greenland (7), Japan (1), Lithuania (12), Pakistan (2), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), the United Kingdom (17), United States (5: Alaska)
• Carboniferous of China (1), United States (1: Alaska)
Total: 66 collections including 69 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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