Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Alternative spelling: Neospiriferidae
Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1968. The classification and description of Permian Spiriferida (Brachiopoda) from New Zealand. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 129(1-3):1-94
Parent taxon: Trigonotretidae according to A. Williams et al. 2006
See also Shen et al. 2003 and Waterhouse 2004
Sister taxa: Costuloplicinae, Trigonotretinae
Subtaxa: Betaneospirifer Blasispirifer Cartorhium Costatispirifer Crassispirifer Cratispirifer Fasciculatia Fusispirifer Fusispiriferinae Gibbospirifer Gypospirifer Imperiospira Kaninospirifer Kaninospiriferinae Lepidospirifer Lutuginia Maxwellispirifer Neospirifer Occidalia Pondospirifer Saltospirifer Septospirifer Simplicisulcus Spiriferalaria Tibetospirifer
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Afghanistan (14 collections), Australia (154), Austria (1), Bolivia (20), Canada (26: Alberta, British Columbia, Nunavut, Yukon), Chile (5), China (101), Greenland (30), Guatemala (1), Hungary (1), India (27), Indian Ocean (4), Indonesia (9), Iran (1), Japan (15), Laos (2), Madagascar (1), Malaysia (3), Mexico (4), Mongolia (18), Myanmar (3), Nepal (88), New Zealand (15), Oman (18), Pakistan (198), Peru (8), the Russian Federation (90), Slovenia (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (27), Thailand (12), United States (308: Alaska, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Wyoming), Venezuela (4), Vietnam (2)
• Namurian of Argentina (1), Australia (7)
• Carboniferous to Permian of Bolivia (1), United States (17: California, Texas)
• Carboniferous of Afghanistan (2), Argentina (6), Australia (4), Bolivia (7), Brazil (1), Canada (1: Nunavut), Chile (1), China (3), Egypt (3), Malaysia (3), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), Pakistan (1), Peru (3), the Russian Federation (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (5), Ukraine (1), United States (434: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, California, Wyoming)
• Paleozoic of Chile (1)
Total: 1718 collections including 2032 occurrences