Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
Parent taxon: Sellithyrididae according to A. Williams et al. 2006
See also Cooper 1993
Sister taxa: Nerthebrochinae, Sellithyridinae
Subtaxa: Collinithyris Cyrtothyris Moutonithyris Neoliothyrina Praelongithyris Rectithyris Rhombothyris Tropeothyris
Type: Rectithyris
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Denmark (8 collections), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)
• Cretaceous of Afghanistan (2), Algeria (3), Angola (1), Antarctica (5), Austria (4), Belgium (5), China (1), the Czech Republic (19), France (20), Germany (5), Greenland (2), Hungary (1), India (3), Iran (1), Iraq (1), Italy (3), Kazakhstan (2), Madagascar (2), Morocco (3), the Netherlands (3), Portugal (4), South Africa (5), Spain (6), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), Sweden (4), Switzerland (5), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (45), Uzbekistan (1)
• Jurassic of Greece (1), Poland (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2)
Total: 176 collections including 248 occurrences