Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Megathyrididae
Synonym: Cistellarcula Elliott 1954
Parent taxon: Megathyrididae according to M. A. Bitner and A. Müller 2017
See also Cooper 1979, Hertlein and Grant IV 1944, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Sepkoski 2002 and Williams et al. 2006
Sister taxa: Borellithyris, Bronnothyris, Joania, Megathiris, Phragmothyris
Subtaxa: Argyrotheca aequicostata Argyrotheca ageriana Argyrotheca alavensis Argyrotheca altavillensis Argyrotheca andina Argyrotheca angulata Argyrotheca anomala Argyrotheca arguta Argyrotheca australis Argyrotheca barrettiana Argyrotheca batalleri Argyrotheca beecheri Argyrotheca bermudana Argyrotheca bermudezi Argyrotheca bitnerae Argyrotheca bronnii Argyrotheca cistellula Argyrotheca clevei Argyrotheca collardi Argyrotheca coniuncta Argyrotheca costulata Argyrotheca crassa Argyrotheca cuneata Argyrotheca cyrtiniformis Argyrotheca dalli Argyrotheca grandicostata Argyrotheca hewatti Argyrotheca hirundo Argyrotheca inconstans Argyrotheca intercalata Argyrotheca jacksoni Argyrotheca johnsoni Argyrotheca kupei Argyrotheca lacunosa Argyrotheca laevis Argyrotheca londinensis Argyrotheca lowei Argyrotheca lunula Argyrotheca lutea Argyrotheca macneili Argyrotheca magnicostata Argyrotheca mayi Argyrotheca megalocephala Argyrotheca megapora Argyrotheca michelottina Argyrotheca microscopica Argyrotheca obourgensis Argyrotheca peculiaris Argyrotheca piperipyxis Argyrotheca plana Argyrotheca plicata Argyrotheca popielae Argyrotheca quadrata Argyrotheca ramshehensis Argyrotheca retrorsa Argyrotheca rubrocostata Argyrotheca rubrotincta Argyrotheca sabandensis Argyrotheca sabaratensis Argyrotheca schrammi Argyrotheca semicostata Argyrotheca semicostata Argyrotheca serrata Argyrotheca somaliensis Argyrotheca squamata Argyrotheca stevensis Argyrotheca subcordata Argyrotheca sublamellosa Argyrotheca thurmanni Argyrotheca tokodensis Argyrotheca woodwardiana Argyrotheca zenobiae Cistellarcula dubia Cistellarcula wrigleyi
Type: Terebratula cuneata
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Barbados (3 collections), France (1), Italy (2), Jamaica (4)
• Pliocene of Cuba (1), the Dominican Republic (14), Spain (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (5), Austria (1), Bulgaria (3), Cuba (4), the Czech Republic (6), Hungary (2), Indonesia (1), Iran (1), Italy (2), Malta (1), Morocco (2), New Zealand (5), Poland (36), Slovenia (1), Syria (1)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (1), Cuba (2), France (4), Germany (8), Iran (1), Puerto Rico (2)
• Eocene of Austria (7), Cuba (8), France (14), Germany (1), Hungary (5), New Zealand (2), North Atlantic (1), Peru (1), Spain (4), Tonga (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (6: North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Paleocene of Denmark (16), France (1), Spain (3), United States (4: Alabama, New Jersey, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (33), Cuba (1), Denmark (7), Germany (2), the Netherlands (2), Poland (4), the United Kingdom (20)
• Jurassic of United States (1: California)
Total: 263 collections including 359 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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