†family Paucispiniferidae Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Productida - Paucispiniferidae

Parent taxon: Marginiferoidea according to J. B. Waterhouse 2004

Sister taxa: Breileeniini, Incisiini, Liaotarimella, Marginiferidae, Marginiferini, Trachomarginifera

Subtaxa: Paucispiniferinae

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Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of China (2 collections)

• Permian to Triassic of India (1)

• Permian of Afghanistan (3), Armenia (2), Australia (21), Azerbaijan (1), Bolivia (20), Cambodia (4), Canada (24: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (174), Croatia (2), Greece (3), Greenland (28), India (19), Indonesia (4), Japan (22), Laos (2), Malaysia (18), Mexico (28), Mongolia (10), Myanmar (8), Nepal (15), Oman (2), Pakistan (68), the Russian Federation (37), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (32), Tajikistan (2), Thailand (22), Ukraine (4), United States (372: Alaska, California, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Venezuela (4), Vietnam (1)

• Carboniferous to Permian of United States (3: Texas)

• Carboniferous of Canada (3: Nunavut), China (3), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (181: Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah)

Total: 1148 collections including 1419 occurrences

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