Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Rhynchospirinidae
Synonym: Rhynchospira Hall 1859 [replaced name]
Full reference: C. Schuchert and C. M. LeVene. 1929. New names for brachiopod homonyms. The American Journal of Science, Fifth Series 17:119-122
Parent taxon: Rhynchospirinidae according to A. Williams et al. 2002
See also Schuchert and LeVene 1929 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Homoeospira, Homoeospirella, Pseudoparazyga, Rhyncholeptospira, Trematospira
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Austria (2 collections), Canada (3: Northwest Territories, Quebec, Yukon), China (1), the Czech Republic (2), Italy (4), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (4), Tajikistan (1), Ukraine (2), United States (17: Colorado, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania)
• Silurian to Devonian of Canada (1: Nova Scotia), Poland (1), United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Canada (6: Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Yukon, Yukon Territory), Sweden (6), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (11: Alabama, Maryland, Michigan, West Virginia), Venezuela (1)
Total: 67 collections including 69 occurrences
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