Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Martiniidae
Full reference: W. Waagen. 1883. Productus Limestone Fossils, Part IV, fas. 2. Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 1(4):391-546
Parent taxon: Martinioidea according to A. Williams et al. 2006
See also Chen and Shi 1999, Shen et al. 2003 and Smith and Xu 1988
Sister taxa: Crassumbidae, Elythynidae, Gerkispiridae, Ingelarellidae, Micromartiniidae, Perissothyrididae, Tenellodermidae
Subtaxa: Elivellinae Eomartiniopsinae Martiniinae Postamartinia
Type: Martinia
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (4 collections)
• Permian of Afghanistan (5), Armenia (1), Australia (16), Austria (2), Canada (18: Nunavut, Yukon), China (150), Croatia (5), East Timor (1), Greece (6), Greenland (9), Hungary (2), India (3), Indonesia (3), Iran (10), Italy (7), Japan (16), Laos (2), Malaysia (7), Mexico (3), Mongolia (2), Myanmar (10), Nepal (1), New Zealand (14), Oman (2), Pakistan (103), the Russian Federation (15), Slovenia (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Tajikistan (12), Thailand (6), Tunisia (4), Turkey (2), Ukraine (3), United States (115: Alaska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas), Vietnam (1)
• Namurian of Thailand (1)
• Carboniferous of Canada (19: Alberta, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), China (16), Ireland (1), Italy (1), Nepal (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Korea (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (27), United States (74: Alaska, California, Idaho, Idaho-Utah, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, California)
• Devonian of China (2), the Czech Republic (1), Germany (2), United States (1: Alaska), Uzbekistan (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of Pakistan (1)
• Silurian of Belarus (1), Latvia (2), Lithuania (2), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 719 collections including 949 occurrences