Strophomenata - Productida - Productidae
Synonym: Spinifronsinae Waterhouse 1981
Parent taxon: Productidae according to A. Williams et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Dictyoclostinae, Leioproductinae, Yakovleviinae
Subtaxa: Buxtoniini Tolmatchoffiini
Type: Buxtonia
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Afghanistan (1 collection), Bolivia (5), Canada (31: British Columbia, Nunavut, Yukon), Chile (5), China (30), Greenland (30), Guatemala (1), Iran (6), Japan (3), Laos (1), Malaysia (1), Mexico (6), Mongolia (8), the Russian Federation (23), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (5), Thailand (3), Ukraine (1), United States (333: Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah), Venezuela (7)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (2), Australia (41), Brazil (2), Canada (38: Alberta, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (7), Iran (2), Ireland (1), Libya (4), Peru (3), the Russian Federation (2), South Korea (1), the United Kingdom (23), United States (149: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Idaho, Idaho-Utah, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (1)
Total: 776 collections including 866 occurrences