†family Erymnariidae Cooper 1959 (lamp shell)

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

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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 and Montenegro (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

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