Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
Parent taxon: Eospiriferinae according to A. Williams et al. 2006
See also Bassett and Cocks 1974, Kirk and Amsden 1952, Sepkoski 2002 and Villas and Cocks 1996
Sister taxa: Badainjarania, Endospirifer, Espella, Havlicekia, Hedeina, Janius, Macropleura, Mictospirifer, Myriospirifer, Nurataella, Striispirifer, Xinanospirifer, Yingwuspirifer
Subtaxa: Eospirifer (Eospirifer) Eospirifer cinghizicus Eospirifer eastoni Eospirifer ghobadiae Eospirifer marklini Eospirifer praecursor Eospirifer radiatus
Type: Spirifer radiatus
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (12 collections), Austria (2), China (4), Germany (2), Kazakhstan (1), Mongolia (1), New Zealand (3), the Russian Federation (7), Spain (1), Tajikistan (3), Ukraine (1), United States (3: Alaska, New York), Uzbekistan (1), Vietnam (2)
• Jaani of Estonia (7), Lithuania (3)
• Niagaran of Canada (2: Québec), United States (1: Indiana)
• Silurian to Devonian of Australia (1)
• Silurian of Australia (5), Canada (23: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (41), the Czech Republic (4), Estonia (5), Iran (3), Kazakhstan (4), Latvia (1), Lithuania (18), Mexico (12), Mongolia (4), Norway (2), the Russian Federation (4), Spain (1), Sweden (26), Tajikistan (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (31), United States (106: Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Wisconsin), Venezuela (3)
• Ordovician of Australia (2), China (22), Spain (1)
Total: 377 collections including 412 occurrences
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