Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1959. Genera of Tertiary and Recent rhynchonelloid brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 130(5):1-90
Parent taxon: Basiliolidae according to A. Williams et al. 2002
See also Cooper 1959 and Craig 2000
Sister taxa: Aetheiinae, Aphelesiinae, Basiliocostella, Dagysorhynchia, Lacunosellinae, Pamirorhynchiinae
Subtaxa: Almorhynchia Apringia Basiliola Eohemithyris Fortunella Megapringia Neorhynchia Probolarina Rhytirhynchia Rionirhynchia Sepkoskirhynchia Serratapringia Soaresirhynchia Streptaria Ussurirhynchia
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (10 collections), Vanuatu (2)
• Pliocene of Fiji (4)
• Miocene of Italy (2)
• Oligocene of United States (1: Washington)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Cuba (1), New Zealand (7), Oman (1), United States (8: California, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Paleocene of New Zealand (1)
• Cretaceous of Australia (9), Austria (1), France (1), Hungary (5), Poland (1), Spain (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Hungary (1)
• Jurassic of Austria (3), Bulgaria (1), France (22), Hungary (70), Morocco (2), Poland (1), Portugal (72), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (102), Switzerland (1), Tunisia (3), the United Kingdom (3)
• Permian of the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 340 collections including 461 occurrences