†subfamily Pygopinae Muir-Wood 1965 (lamp shell)
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Pygopidae
Parent taxon: Pygopidae according to L. Bujtor and R. Albrecht 2022
See also Williams et al. 2006
Sister taxa: Dyscoliope, Glossothyris, Sphenope, Triangopinae
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Austria (1 collection), Czechia (22), France (1), Greenland (2), Hungary (23), Poland (19), Slovakia (2), Spain (1), Ukraine (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Hungary (1), Poland (10)
• Jurassic of Azerbaijan (1), Bulgaria (1), Greenland (1), Hungary (19), Poland (21)
Total: 126 collections including 194 occurrences