Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Zygopleuridae
Synonyms: Goniospiridae Golikov and Starobogatov 1987, Goniospirinae Golikov and Starobogatov 1987, Polygyrinidae Bandel 1993
Parent taxon: Zygopleuridae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005
See also Kaim 2004 and Nützel and Kaim 2014
Sister taxa: Allocosmia, Allostrophiinae, Ampezzopleurinae, Andangulariinae, Aristerostrophia, Azyga, Hypsipleura, Pseudokatosira, Raha, Virgella, Xizangospira, Zardinistylus, Zebalia
Subtaxa: Agordozyga Goniospira Levipleura Polygyrina Teutonica Zygopleura
Type: Zygopleura
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Paleocene to Eocene of Turkey (1 collection)
• Jurassic of Chile (1), Germany (49), Hungary (1), India (4), Israel (1), Italy (1), Luxembourg (1), New Zealand (2), Poland (5), Portugal (2), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (1), Tanzania (2), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (30)
• Triassic of Austria (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (30), Colombia (2), Germany (1), Hungary (13), Iran (4), Italy (63), Oman (1), Peru (5), Poland (1), Romania (1), Slovakia (3), Switzerland (1), Tunisia (1), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (14: Alaska, Idaho, Utah)
• Permian to Triassic of China (1)
• Permian of China (5), Germany (2), Indonesia (2), Tunisia (2), the United Kingdom (4), United States (2: Texas)
• Carboniferous of United States (9: Alaska, Kansas, Oklahoma)
Total: 277 collections including 362 occurrences