Sedentaria - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Parent taxon: Serpulidae according to W. Kiessling 2009
See also Gall 1971, Martin 1904, Sepkoski 2002 and Wienrich 1999
Sister taxa: Alpinotubus, Barbafera, Carpathiella, Ditrupa, Dorsoserpula, Filograna, Filogranites, Janua, Josephella, Laminatubus, Mercierella, Nogrobs, Parsimonia, Pentaserpula, Propomatoceros, Protis, Protula, Pseudovermilia, Pyrgopolon, Rotularia, Ruxingella, Semivermilia, Serpula, Spirobranchus, Vitreotubus, Weixiserpula
Subtaxa: Spirorbis ambiguus Spirorbis angulatus Spirorbis calvertensis Spirorbis cincinnatiensis Spirorbis globosus Spirorbis helix Spirorbis infundibulum Spirorbis omphalotes Spirorbis permianus Spirorbis pusillus
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Antarctica (3 collections), France (1), Greenland (9), Maldives (2), Mexico (3), United States (2: Alaska, California)
• Pliocene of Greece (1), Indian Ocean (1)
• Miocene of French Southern Territories (1), Germany (2), New Zealand (1), Poland (1), Romania (1), Ukraine (2), United States (1: California)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of Germany (1), Mexico (1), United States (4: Alabama, Florida, Texas)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), the Czech Republic (3), United States (3: Arizona)
• Jurassic of France (1), Portugal (2)
• Triassic of Australia (1), Austria (1), China (14), France (1), Germany (3), Greenland (4), Hungary (1), Iran (1), Italy (7), Oman (1), Spain (1), Turkey (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: New Mexico)
• Permian of Australia (1), Azerbaijan (1), China (2), Greece (1), Italy (1), Pakistan (1), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (30: Alaska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah), Venezuela (2)
• Carboniferous to Permian of China (1), United States (4: California)
• Carboniferous of Canada (1: Alberta), the Netherlands (1), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (14), United States (45: Alabama, Alaska, California, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah)
• Devonian of Australia (5), Belgium (3), Canada (24: Alberta, Northwest Territories), the Czech Republic (1), France (2), Germany (18), Poland (1), Spain (1), United States (19: Alaska, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, New York, Ohio, Tennessee)
• Silurian to Devonian of United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Canada (3: Ontario, Quebec), Estonia (1), Sweden (8), the United Kingdom (4), United States (17: Alaska, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee)
• Ordovician of Canada (2: Ontario, Quebec), United States (5: Ohio)
• Tremadoc of United States (1: New York)
Total: 316 collections including 325 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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