†family Syringothyrididae Fredericks 1926 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae

Parent taxon: Syringothyridoidea according to A. Williams et al. 2006

See also Archbold 1997

Sister taxa: Dimegelasmidae, Licharewiidae

Subtaxa: Permasyrinxinae Septosyringothyridinae Syringothyridinae

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Type: Syringothyris

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Afghanistan (7 collections), Australia (170), Brazil (1), Canada (3: Nunavut, Yukon), China (13), Greece (1), India (13), Indonesia (3), Mongolia (6), Nepal (20), New Zealand (1), Oman (30), Pakistan (2), the Russian Federation (25), Slovenia (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Tajikistan (4)

• Carboniferous of Afghanistan (3), Argentina (13), Australia (20), Canada (29: Alberta, Northwest Territories, Yukon), Chile (2), China (5), Egypt (1), France (1), India (15), Iran (1), Ireland (1), Libya (8), Mexico (2), Nepal (1), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (18), United States (85: Alaska, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Iowa/Illinois, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia)

• Devonian of Canada (2: Alberta), China (2), France (1), United States (51: Missouri, Montana, Ohio)

• Silurian of Ukraine (1)

Total: 566 collections including 631 occurrences

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