Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae
Synonyms: Pachythyris, Pionopleurum Cooper 1989
Full reference: S. S. Buckman. 1917. The Brachiopoda of the Namyau Beds, Northern Shan States, Burma. Palaeontologia Indica 3(2):1-254
Parent taxon: Loboidothyridinae according to A. Williams et al. 2006
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Sphaeroidothyris arabica Sphaeroidothyris browni Sphaeroidothyris decipiens Sphaeroidothyris doultingensis Sphaeroidothyris dubari Sphaeroidothyris elmii Sphaeroidothyris flatilis Sphaeroidothyris globisphaeroidalis Sphaeroidothyris henriquesae Sphaeroidothyris lenthayensis Sphaeroidothyris naxensis Sphaeroidothyris obesum Sphaeroidothyris pentagonalis Sphaeroidothyris perfida Sphaeroidothyris trifonovi Sphaeroidothyris uretae Sphaeroidothyris vari Sphaeroidothyris vinneyensis
Type: Sphaeroidothyris sphaeroidalis
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Bulgaria (5 collections), France (51), Greece (2), Jordan (1), Morocco (4), Portugal (36), Saudi Arabia (10), Serbia (1), Slovakia (1), Somalia (5), Spain (112), Tunisia (7), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (3)
Total: 240 collections including 271 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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