Superfamily Dyscolioidea Fischer and Oehlert 1891 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida

Alternative spelling: Discolioidea

Parent taxon: Terebratulidina according to L. Bujtor and R. Albrecht 2022

See also Emig et al. 2013 and Williams et al. 2006

Sister taxa: Cancellothyridoidea, Compositelasmatoidea, Cryptonelloidea, Dielasmatoidea, Falciferula, Goliathyris, Loboidothyridoidea, Mayaothyris, Orthotomidae, Pseudorhaetina, Stringocephaloidea, Terebratuloidea, Vex, Zenobiathyridae, Zenobiathyris

Subtaxa: Carinatothyris Dyscoliidae Nucleatidae Papodina Pygopidae

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Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Italy (13 collections)

• Pliocene of Fiji (2), Indonesia (2)

• Eocene of Tonga (1)

• Cretaceous of Austria (2), the Czech Republic (29), France (1), Greenland (3), Hungary (27), Italy (1), Poland (20), Slovakia (2), Spain (1), Ukraine (1)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Hungary (1), Poland (11)

• Jurassic of Algeria (5), Austria (16), Azerbaijan (1), Bulgaria (5), Ethiopia (2), France (10), Greece (10), Greenland (1), Hungary (196), Italy (7), New Caledonia (3), New Zealand (1), Poland (22), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovakia (3), Spain (8), Switzerland (3), Tunisia (4), Turkey (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 419 collections including 720 occurrences

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