Alternative spelling: Marginiferinae
Parent taxon: Productidina according to J. I. Tazawa and H. Araki 2017
See also Carniti et al. 2022, Kotlyar et al. 2004, Waterhouse 2004 and Williams et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Echinoconchoidea, Linoproductoidea, Productoidea
Subtaxa: Breileeniini Incisiini Liaotarimella Marginiferidae Marginiferini Paucispiniferidae Trachomarginifera
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (9 collections), India (2), Pakistan (1)
• Permian to Triassic of India (4)
• Permian of Afghanistan (8), Armenia (14), Australia (21), Austria (1), Azerbaijan (28), Bolivia (20), Cambodia (5), Canada (27: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (487), Croatia (2), Greece (35), Greenland (30), Hong Kong (6), Hungary (5), India (19), Indonesia (6), Iran (131), Italy (3), Japan (34), Laos (2), Madagascar (1), Malaysia (19), Mexico (34), Mongolia (12), Myanmar (8), Nepal (17), Oman (3), Pakistan (256), the Russian Federation (65), Serbia (2), Slovenia (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (33), Tajikistan (3), Thailand (38), Timor-Leste (1), Tunisia (1), Türkiye (23), Ukraine (6), the United Arab Emirates (1), United States (471: Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Venezuela (4), Vietnam (2)
• Carboniferous to Permian of United States (4: California, Texas)
• Carboniferous of Canada (5: Nunavut, Yukon), China (6), South Korea (1), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (4), the United Kingdom (1), United States (363: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 2287 collections including 3354 occurrences