†family Strophalosiidae Schuchert 1913 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Productida - Strophalosiidae

Full reference: C. Schuchert. 1913. Class 2. Brachiopoda. Text-book of Palaeontology 1(1):355-420

Parent taxon: Strophalosioidea according to J. B. Waterhouse 2004

See also Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960, Shen et al. 2003 and Williams et al. 2000

Sister taxa: Araksalosiidae, Chonopectidae

Subtaxa: Dasyalosiinae Echinalosiinae Melvillosia Mingenewiinae Strophalosiinae

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Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Australia (799 collections), Azerbaijan (1), Canada (9: Alberta, British Columbia, Nunavut), China (55), Germany (6), Greenland (14), India (3), Indonesia (1), Iran (1), Japan (5), Lithuania (16), Malaysia (1), Mexico (2), Mongolia (5), Myanmar (2), Nepal (86), New Zealand (35), Oman (12), Pakistan (97), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (58), Thailand (8), the United Kingdom (34), United States (107: Alaska, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)

• Carboniferous to Permian of United States (1: California)

• Carboniferous of Argentina (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (30: Alaska, Arizona, California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Tennessee, Texas)

• Devonian of China (1), United States (37: Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah)

Total: 1432 collections including 1587 occurrences

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