†superfamily Spiriferinoidea Davidson 1884 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida

Alternative spelling: Spiriferinacea

Parent taxon: Spiriferinidina according to W. H. He and Z. Q. Chen 2016

See also Brunton and Champion 1974 and Williams et al. 2006

Sister taxa: Pennospiriferinoidea, Syringothyridoidea

Subtaxa: Mentzeliidae Paralaballidae Sinucostidae Spiriferinidae

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Type: Spiriferina

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Jurassic of Algeria (3 collections), Argentina (6), Austria (31), Bulgaria (9), Canada (1: Yukon), Chile (37), East Timor (1), France (55), Germany (19), Gibraltar (1), Greece (4), Greenland (11), Hungary (77), Italy (4), Luxembourg (1), New Zealand (38), Portugal (24), Saudi Arabia (13), Serbia and Montenegro (3), Slovakia (3), Somalia (1), Spain (140), Switzerland (1), Tunisia (1), Turkey (5), the United Kingdom (5), United States (2: Alaska)

• Triassic of Austria (50), Bosnia and Herzegovina (19), Bulgaria (1), Canada (7: British Columbia), Chile (3), China (76), Colombia (1), Croatia (2), East Timor (1), Germany (4), Hungary (57), India (4), Indonesia (7), Iran (9), Italy (59), Japan (1), Nepal (1), New Caledonia (1), New Zealand (27), Papua New Guinea (7), Poland (1), Romania (8), the Russian Federation (28), Serbia and Montenegro (6), Slovakia (17), Slovenia (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Tajikistan (3), Thailand (2), Turkey (37), Ukraine (2), the United Arab Emirates (3), United States (22: Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Wyoming), Vietnam (1), Yemen (1)

• Permian of Greenland (3), Guatemala (1), Iran (3), Italy (4), Laos (1), Malaysia (1), Nepal (4), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (39), the Russian Federation (1), Thailand (3), United States (19: Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming)

• Carboniferous of India (1), United States (20: Alaska, Arizona, California, Iowa, Kentucky, Montana, Nevada, Utah)

• Silurian of China (1)

Total: 1070 collections including 1503 occurrences

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