We prove that a locally finite dimensional shift-invariant linear space of distributions must be a linear subspace of some shift-invariant space generated by finitely many compactly supported distributions. If the locally finite dimensional shift-invariant space is a subspace of the Holder continuous space C-alpha or the fractional Sobolev space L-p,L-gamma, then the superspace can be chosen to be C-alpha or L-p,L-gamma, respectively.