Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Parent taxon: Wellerelloidea according to J. F. Baeza-Carratalá and F. García Joral 2022
See also Atrops and Alméras 2005, Brunton and Champion 1974, Shen et al. 2003 and Williams et al. 2002
Sister taxa: Allorhynchidae, Amphipellidae, Petasmatheridae, Pontisiidae, Sinorhynchiidae
Subtaxa: Cirpinae Exlaminellinae Madarosiinae Nipponirhynchiinae Saubachia Strigirhynchiinae Tricoriinae Trophisininae Uncinunellininae Wellerellinae
Type: Wellerella
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Algeria (2 collections), Australia (11), Austria (28), Bulgaria (2), Chile (6), China (2), France (42), Germany (3), Greece (2), Greenland (1), Hungary (31), Italy (22), Madagascar (1), New Caledonia (15), New Zealand (68), Portugal (5), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovakia (2), Spain (8), Switzerland (1), Turkey (4), the United Kingdom (28)
• Triassic of Austria (4), China (15), Iran (1), Japan (1), Myanmar (1), New Caledonia (3), New Zealand (9), Papua New Guinea (2), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (14), Slovakia (5), Tajikistan (1), Turkey (1), the United Arab Emirates (1)
• Permian of Afghanistan (1), Armenia (4), Australia (18), Azerbaijan (10), Bolivia (2), Canada (2: Northwest Territories, Yukon), China (155), Greece (2), India (2), Indonesia (3), Iran (9), Italy (3), Japan (5), Laos (3), Malaysia (5), Mexico (20), Nepal (1), New Zealand (30), Oman (1), Pakistan (40), Peru (15), the Russian Federation (5), Slovenia (1), Tajikistan (9), Thailand (8), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (32), United States (261: Arizona, California, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Carboniferous to Permian of United States (1: California)
• Carboniferous of Canada (3: Nunavut), China (2), United States (115: Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 1114 collections including 1441 occurrences