Echinoconchidae

Echinoconchidae
Temporal range: Tournaisian–Upper Permian [1]
Fossils of the echinoconchid Echinoconchus (13-26) along with other brachiopods
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Brachiopoda
Class: †Strophomenata
Order: †Productida
Superfamily: †Echinoconchoidea
Family: †Echinoconchidae
Stehli, 1954
Subfamilies

Echinoconchidae is an extinct family of brachiopods which lived from the Lower Carboniferous to Upper Permian periods in marine habitats.[2] Currently, four subfamilies are assigned to it, though the evolutionary relationships between them and the family Productidae have been heavily debated for the better part of the 20th Century.[1]

  1. ^ a b Leighton, Lindsey R.; Maples, Christopher G. (July 2002). "Evaluating internal versus external characters: Phylogenetic analyses of the Echinoconchidae, Buxtoniinae, and Juresaniinae (Phylum Brachiopoda)". Journal of Paleontology. 76 (4): 659. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2002)076<0659:EIVECP>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0022-3360.
  2. ^ Stehli, Francis Greenough (1954). "Lower Leonardian Brachiopoda of the Sierra Diablo". Bulletin of the AMNH. 105 (3): 261–358.