†family Muirwoodellidae Tchorzhevsky 1974 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Muirwoodellidae

Full reference: E. S. Tchorzhevsky. 1974. New data on inner shell structure and systematics of Jurassic terebratulid brachiopods from Superfamily Terebratuloidea Gray, 1840 and Loboidothyridoidea Makridin, 1964. Bulletin of the Kharkov University 5(108):42-57

Parent taxon: Loboidothyridoidea according to A. Williams et al. 2006

Sister taxa: Alabushevothyrididae, Boreiothyrididae, Cheirothyropsidae, Cheniothyrididae, Clathrithyrididae, Dictyothyrididae, Dienopidae, Eplenyithyris, Goniothyridinae, Harpotothyrididae, Hesperithyrididae, Heterobrochinae, Jaisalmeria, Kendzhilgithyris, Lissajousithyrididae, Loboidothyrididae, Lobothyrididae, Lobothyroides, Magharithyris, Mametothyrididae, Naradanithyris, Neumayrithyris, Pamirothyris, Peristerothyris, Plectoconchidae, Postepithyrididae, Psebajithyridinae, Rugithyris, Sogxianthyris, Spasskothyrididae, Taurothyris, Tchegemithyrididae, Tegulithyrididae, Triadithyrididae, Trichothyris, Trigonithyrididae, Tshemsarythyris, Viallithyris, Weldonithyris

Subtaxa: Karadagithyridinae Muirwoodellinae Negramithyris Praegoniothyris

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Type: Muirwoodella

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Hungary (1 collection), Poland (15), Slovakia (2)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Poland (3)

• Jurassic of Algeria (1), Austria (3), Czechia (1), Hungary (12), Poland (14), Serbia (1), Spain (2), Ukraine (4)

Total: 59 collections including 70 occurrences

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