Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
Parent taxon: Pennospiriferinoidea according to A. Williams et al. 2006
Sister taxa: Balatonospiridae, Lepismatinidae, Paraspiriferinidae, Pennospiriferinidae, Punctospiriferidae, Reticulariinidae, Sarganostegidae, Spiropunctiferidae
Subtaxa: Crenispirifer Lancangjiangia Metriolepis Pseudospiriferina Spiriferellina Sulcispiriferina Tulungospirifer
Type: Spiriferellina
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (42 collections), India (8), Nepal (4), the United Arab Emirates (1)
• Permian of Afghanistan (4), Armenia (5), Australia (16), Azerbaijan (6), Bolivia (1), Cambodia (1), Canada (4: Nunavut, Yukon), China (91), Germany (1), Greece (1), Greenland (7), Hungary (2), India (1), Indonesia (4), Iran (7), Japan (7), Laos (1), Lithuania (5), Malaysia (13), Mexico (6), Myanmar (5), Nepal (6), New Zealand (3), Oman (3), Pakistan (83), the Russian Federation (10), Tajikistan (5), Thailand (18), Tunisia (1), Turkey (2), Ukraine (10), the United Arab Emirates (1), the United Kingdom (17), United States (193: Alaska, Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas), Venezuela (1)
• Namurian of Argentina (1), Australia (2)
• Carboniferous to Permian of United States (2: California)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (3), Australia (4), Belgium (1), Canada (1: Nunavut), Ireland (2), Morocco (1), South Korea (1), the United Kingdom (13), United States (44: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Kentucky, Nevada, Oklahoma)
• Devonian to Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 672 collections including 854 occurrences