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Echinoconchidae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3252401	https://www.gbif.org/species/3252401
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	82772	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=82772

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Brachiopoda : Strophomenata : Productida : Echinoconchidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
-	Lophophorata
phylum	Brachiopoda	Cuvier 1805
subphylum	Rhynchonelliformea	Williams et al. 1996
class	Strophomenata	Williams et al 1996
order	Productida	Sarycheva and Sokolskaya 1959
suborder	Productidina	Waagen 1883
superfamily	Echinoconchoidea	Stehli 1954
family	Echinoconchidae	Stehli 1954

Scientific Name

Echinoconchidae

Name Published In

Bull. amer. Mus. nat. Hist., 105(3): 326

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Echinoconchidae	family	belongs to Productacea	stated without evidence	Brunton and Champion, 1974
Echinoconchidae	family	belongs to Echinoconchoidea	stated with evidence	Williams et al., 2000
Echinoconchidae	family	belongs to Productida	stated without evidence	Shen et al., 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

134

First Recorded Appearance

383 - 372 Ma
Late/Upper Devonian

Last Recorded Appearance

156 - 151 Ma
Jurassic

Motility

stationary (based on Productidina)

Vision

blind (based on Strophomenata)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Productidina)

Taphonomy

low Mg calcite (based on Brachiopoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

F.G. Stehli. 1954. Lower Leonardian Brachiopoda of the Sierra Diablo. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 105(3):257-358

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Echinoconchinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)	461	383 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	254 Ma Permian
Juresaniinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)	1,214	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	254 Ma Permian
Pustulinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)	188	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	156 Ma Jurassic
Ametoria ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	280 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Bathymyonia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	120	304 Ma Carboniferous	260 Ma Permian
Bilotina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	71	299 Ma Carboniferous	265 Ma Permian
Calliprotonia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	58	315 Ma Carboniferous	269 Ma Permian
Chenxianoproductus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	18	265 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Contraspina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	52	269 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Cubacula ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	307 Ma Carboniferous	304 Ma Carboniferous
Echinaria ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	85	318 Ma Carboniferous	290 Ma Permian
Echinoconchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	266	383 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	260 Ma Permian
Etheridgina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	336 Ma Carboniferous	336 Ma Carboniferous
Fostericoncha ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Juresania ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	199	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	254 Ma Permian
Karavankina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	29	347 Ma Carboniferous	269 Ma Permian
Parajuresania ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	191	318 Ma Carboniferous	299 Ma Carboniferous
Pulchratia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	12	318 Ma Carboniferous	272 Ma Permian
Pustula ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	185	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	156 Ma Jurassic
Septarinia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Stepanoconchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	296 Ma Permian	296 Ma Permian
Vediproductus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	79	304 Ma Carboniferous	254 Ma Permian
Waagenoconcha ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	475	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	254 Ma Permian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1954	Echinoconchidae Stehli p. 326
1974	Echinoconchidae Brunton and Champion p. 818
2000	Echinoconchidae Williams et al. p. 509
2002	Echinoconchidae Shen et al. p. 673

References

Stehli F.G. (1954) Lower Leonardian Brachiopoda of the Sierra Diablo, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 105 3, 257-358

Brunton C. H. C., Champion C. (1974) A Lower Carboniferous brachiopod fauna from the Manifold Valley, Staffordshire, Palaeontology 17 4, 811-840

Williams A., Carlson S. J., et al (2000) Part H Brachiopoda (revised): Volumes 2 & 3, Linguliformea, Craniiformea, Rhynchonelliformea (part)., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, 1-919

Shen S. Z., Shi G. R., et al (2002) Permian brachiopods from the Baoshan and Simao Blocks in Western Yunnan, China, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 20, 665-682

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Direction 62 Addition to the Official List of Family-group Names in Zoology or, as the case may be, to the Official Index of Rejected and invalid family-group names in Zoology of the family-group names Involved in the Cases dealt with in volume 14 of the work Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological nomenclature, other than names already dealt with either in Opinions included in that volume or in a separate Direction.Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 14(23), 459-470 (1957) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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