Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Erymnariidae
Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1959. Genera of Tertiary and Recent rhynchonelloid brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 130(5):1-90
Parent taxon: Pugnacoidea according to A. Williams et al. 2002
Sister taxa: Aseptorhynchiidae, Basiliolidae, Camerophorinidae, Ladogiidae, Paranorellidae, Petasmariidae, Plectorhynchellidae, Pseudocapillirhynchia, Pugnacidae, Pygmaellidae, Rozmanariidae, Yunnanellidae
Subtaxa: Calvirhynchiinae Costerymnaria Cryptorhynchiinae Erymnariinae Septocrurellinae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of Cuba (1 collection), Italy (2)
• Cretaceous of Italy (3), Poland (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Poland (1)
• Jurassic of Algeria (3), Austria (7), Bulgaria (2), China (1), France (2), Greece (2), Hungary (7), India (13), Italy (11), Madagascar (8), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (2), Ukraine (4), United States (1: Idaho)
• Triassic of China (9), the Russian Federation (3)
Total: 88 collections including 103 occurrences