Strophomenata - Productida - Monticuliferidae
Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1986. Taxonomic names, in Late Palaeozoic Scyphozoa and Brachiopoda (Inarticulata, Strophomenida, Productida and Rhynchonellida) from the southeast Bowen Basin, Australia. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 193(1-4):1-76
Parent taxon: Monticuliferidae according to L. Angiolini et al. 2005
See also Waterhouse 2004 and Williams et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Compressoproductinae, Devonoproductinae, Eoproductellinae, Gigantoproductinae, Lercarella, Monticuliferinae, Striatiferinae, Zhejiangoproductus
Subtaxa: Auriculispinini Bocharella Costatumulus Liaozhuotingia Lyoniini Semilunataproductus
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (3 collections)
• Permian of Afghanistan (2), Antarctica (1), Armenia (8), Australia (325), Azerbaijan (13), Bolivia (16), Brazil (1), Cambodia (2), Canada (9: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (217), Greece (2), Greenland (14), India (14), Indonesia (2), Iran (24), Japan (8), Laos (1), Malaysia (9), Mongolia (25), Myanmar (1), Nepal (18), New Zealand (9), Oman (7), Pakistan (76), the Russian Federation (131), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (22), Tajikistan (9), Thailand (20), United States (13: Texas)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (14), Australia (1), Bolivia (3), Canada (27: Alberta, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), China (6), France (1), India (1), Iran (4), Mexico (2), Peru (1), the United Kingdom (14), United States (100: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Iowa/Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming)
Total: 1176 collections including 1373 occurrences