Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
Alternative spelling: Spirifer (Spiriferina)
Parent taxon: Spiriferininae according to W. H. He and Z. Q. Chen 2016
See also Meek 1876, Sepkoski 2002 and Williams et al. 2006
Sister taxon: Calyptoria
Subtaxa: Spiriferina (Mansuyella) Spiriferina (Mentzelia) Spiriferina abichi Spiriferina acutissima Spiriferina alia Spiriferina arakiwa Spiriferina betacalcis Spiriferina bihatiensis Spiriferina bittneri Spiriferina borealis Spiriferina carolinae Spiriferina cassiana Spiriferina coreyi Spiriferina diomedea Spiriferina elegantissima Spiriferina expansa Spiriferina fortis Spiriferina gypaetus Spiriferina homfrayi Spiriferina kiparisovae Spiriferina klipsteini Spiriferina laminosa Spiriferina loczyi Spiriferina megarhyncha Spiriferina moeschi Spiriferina moscai Spiriferina munsterii Spiriferina nicklesi Spiriferina octoplicata Spiriferina osmana Spiriferina otamitensis Spiriferina panderi Spiriferina papillosa Spiriferina rostrata Spiriferina roundyi Spiriferina rupicola Spiriferina salomonensis Spiriferina slovenica Spiriferina solitaria Spiriferina sophiaealbae Spiriferina subfragilis Spiriferina subgriesbachi Spiriferina sublilangensis Spiriferina subtrigonalis Spiriferina terebratuloides Spiriferina terzadica Spiriferina timorensis Spiriferina tornata Spiriferina toulai Spiriferina triplicata Spiriferina turcica Spiriferina walcotti Spiriferina yukonensis
Type: Spirifer walcotti
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Algeria (2 collections), Argentina (6), Austria (1), Bulgaria (4), Canada (1: Yukon), Chile (37), East Timor (1), France (18), Germany (17), Greece (1), Greenland (11), Hungary (2), Italy (1), Luxembourg (1), New Zealand (17), Portugal (1), Serbia and Montenegro (3), Slovakia (3), Somalia (1), Spain (7), Switzerland (1), Tunisia (1), Turkey (4), the United Kingdom (5)
• Triassic of Austria (4), Bosnia and Herzegovina (8), Canada (7: British Columbia), Chile (3), China (3), Colombia (1), East Timor (1), Hungary (16), India (2), Indonesia (7), Iran (1), Italy (13), Japan (1), New Zealand (12), Papua New Guinea (4), Poland (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (9), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Thailand (1), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1), the United Arab Emirates (3), United States (21: Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada)
• Permian of Greenland (3), Iran (3), Italy (4), Laos (1), Malaysia (1), Pakistan (35), the Russian Federation (1), United States (19: Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming)
• Carboniferous of India (1), United States (19: Alaska, Arizona, Iowa, Kentucky, Montana, Nevada, Utah)
• Silurian of China (1)
Total: 360 collections including 404 occurrences
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