Echinoconchinae

Echinoconchinae
Temporal range: Visean–Upper Permian
Fossils of Echinoconchus (13-26) along with other brachiopods
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Brachiopoda
Class: Strophomenata
Order: Productida
Family: Echinoconchidae
Subfamily: Echinoconchinae
Stehli, 1954
Subgroups

Echinoconchinae is an extinct subfamily of brachiopods which lived during the Carboniferous and Permian periods in marine habitats. The family had a cosmopolitan distribution.[1]

  1. ^ Stehli, Francis Greenough (1954). "Lower Leonardian Brachiopoda of the Sierra Diablo". Bulletin of the AMNH. 105 (3): 261–358.