Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Full reference: A. Williams. 1953. The classification of the strophomenoid brachiopods. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 43:1-13
Parent taxon: Orthotetoidea according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Brunton and Champion 1974
Sister taxa: Derbyiidae, Meekellidae, Orthotetellidae, Orthotetidae, Pulsiidae
Subtaxa: Schuchertellinae Streptorhynchinae
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Afghanistan (1 collection), Australia (129), Bolivia (1), Brazil (1), Canada (11: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (109), Germany (1), Greece (12), Greenland (24), India (4), Indonesia (6), Iran (6), Italy (6), Japan (12), Lithuania (3), Malaysia (4), Mexico (8), Mongolia (9), Myanmar (2), Nepal (16), New Zealand (6), Oman (13), Pakistan (159), Peru (3), the Russian Federation (42), Slovenia (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (5), Thailand (24), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (10), United States (159: Alaska, California, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas), Vietnam (1)
• Carboniferous to Permian of China (1), United States (4: California)
• Carboniferous of Antarctica (1), Argentina (6), Australia (42), Brazil (1), Canada (6: Alberta, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), Chile (1), China (5), the Czech Republic (2), Iran (1), Ireland (2), Italy (1), Libya (5), Mexico (1), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), the United Kingdom (13), United States (111: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Iowa/Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (2), Australia (18), Belgium (14), Bolivia (29), Brazil (23), Canada (25: Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), China (11), France (4), Germany (13), Libya (4), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (4), United States (202: Alaska, California, Colorado, Iowa, Maryland, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania), Uruguay (1)
• Niagaran of United States (1: Indiana)
• Silurian to Devonian of United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Australia (1), Canada (10: Northwest Territories, Yukon), Greenland (1), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (59: Alaska, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan and Ohio, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, Virginia, West Virginia)
• Ordovician of United States (4: Illinois, Ohio)
Total: 1430 collections including 1657 occurrences