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
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