Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae
Parent taxon: Hysterolitidae according to A. Williams et al. 2006
See also Johnson 1995
Sister taxa: Fimbrispiriferinae, Sollispirifer
Subtaxa: Antispirifer Arduspirifer Australospirifer Brachyspirifer Costellispirifer Dixonella Dyticospirifer Euryspirifer Hysterolites Otospirifer Paraspirifer Patriaspirifer Rostrospirifer Trigonospirifer Xinjiangospirifer
Type: Hysterolites
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Afghanistan (1 collection), Antarctica (1), Argentina (1), Australia (24), Austria (1), Belgium (7), Bolivia (34), Brazil (19), Canada (3: Ontario), China (39), Colombia (3), Czechia (4), France (8), Germany (28), Luxembourg (2), Mauritania (3), Morocco (3), New Zealand (2), the Russian Federation (4), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (16), Spain (19), the United Kingdom (4), United States (52: California, Indiana, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania), Uruguay (1), Venezuela (2), Vietnam (10)
• Silurian of Australia (1)
Total: 293 collections including 358 occurrences