Strophomenata - Productida - Aulostegidae
Full reference: H. Muir-Wood and G. A. Cooper. 1960. Morphology, classification and life habits of the Productoidea (Brachiopoda). Geological Society of America Memoir 81:1-447
Parent taxon: Aulostegoidea according to J. B. Waterhouse 2004
See also Shen et al. 2003, Williams et al. 2000 and Yugan et al. 1998
Sister taxa: Cooperinidae, Scacchinellidae, Tschernyschewiidae
Subtaxa: Agelesiinae Aulosteginae Chonosteginae Ctenalosiinae Echinosteginae Edriosteginae Gondolininae Institellinae Rhamnariinae Taeniothaerinae
Type: Aulosteges
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Afghanistan (3 collections), Armenia (13), Australia (179), Azerbaijan (15), Cambodia (8), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (169), Croatia (2), Guatemala (1), India (6), Indonesia (2), Iran (14), Italy (5), Japan (20), Laos (4), Malaysia (7), Mexico (2), Myanmar (7), Nepal (42), New Zealand (3), Oman (9), Pakistan (32), the Russian Federation (46), Slovenia (1), Tajikistan (5), Thailand (22), Turkey (1), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (7), United States (507: Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Venezuela (4)
• Carboniferous to Permian of United States (1: California)
• Carboniferous of China (2), India (3), Iran (3), Mexico (1), the United Kingdom (15), United States (10: Texas)
Total: 1176 collections including 1777 occurrences