Fig. 1

Distribution of Mississippian brachiopod fauna. Fossil locations and material sources are as follows: 1. Chita (Kotlyar 2002); 2. Uliastaj (Yang 1990); 3. north Junggar (Zhang et al. 1983); 4. Rudny Altay (Gretchishnikova 1966); 5. Kuznetsk Basin (Sarytcheva et al. 1963); 6. Verkhoyansk (Abramov and Grigoryeva 1983, 1986); 7. Yukon (Bamber and Waterhouse 1971); 8. Alaska (Rodriguez and Gutschick 1968, 1969); 9. western Alberta (McGugan and May 1965; Carter 1987, 1988); 10. California (Watkins 1974); 11. central United States (Weller 1905, 1914; Carter 1968, 1972); 12. southwestern United States (Carter 1967); 13. Mexico (Navarro-Santillán et al. 2002; Sour-Tovar et al. 2005; Torres-Martínez et al. 2018); 14. Madama (Mergl et al. 2001); 15. France (Paeckelmann 1931); 16. England (Brunton 1966, 1968; Bassett and Bryant 2006); 17. near Moscow (Sarytcheva and Solkolskaya 1952); 18. southern Ural Mountains (Nalivkin 1979); 19. Azerbaijan (Grechishnikova and Levitskii 2011); 20. Astana (Litvinovich 1962); 21. Kyrgyzstan (Galitzkaja 1977); 22. Borohoro Mountains (Yang 1964a); 23. Gancaohu (Zhang et al. 1983; Chen and Archbold 2000); 24. Hami (Zhang et al. 1983); 25. Beishan (Ding 1985); 26. central Jilin (Liu 1988); 27. Mishan (Su and Gu 1987); 28. Hubei Province (Wang 1984); 29. Hunan Province (Liu et al. 1982); 30. Yunnan–Guizhou (Yang 1964b; Yang 1978); 31. Hainan Province (Liao and Zhang 2006); 32. Malaya (Muir-Wood 1948); 33. Bonaparte Gulf Basin (Roberts 1971; Thomas 1971); 34. Canning Basin (Thomas 1971); 35. Queensland (Maxwell 1960, 1961); 36. New South Wales (Campbell 1956, 1957; Cvancara 1958; Campbell and Roberts 1964; Roberts 1964); 37. Carnarvon Basin (Thomas 1971); 38. Mount Jolmo Lungma region (Zhang and Jin 1976; Yang and Fan 1983); 39. Nepal (Waterhouse 1966); 40. western Karakoram (Gaetani et al. 2004); 41. northern Chile (Isaacson and Dutro 1999); 42. central and western Argentina (Taboada 2010)