Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Parent taxon: Zeilleriidae according to A. Williams et al. 2006
Sister taxa: Aulacothyrinae, Bakonithyris, Macandreviinae, Misunithyris, Neozeilleria, Polyplectella, Securininae, Vectellinae
Subtaxa: Ajukuzella Antiptychina Bazardarella Calpella Cincta Digonella Fimbriothyris Irenothyris Keratothyris Kolymithyris Lazella Menathyris Mycerosia Obovothyris Parathyridina Periallus Pirotella Rugitela Sacothyris Selongthyris Silesiathyris Somalitela Tubegatanella Worobievella Zeilleria
Type: Zeilleria
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of France (8 collections), Germany (4), Greenland (2), Mexico (3), Portugal (3), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (6)
• Jurassic of Algeria (3), Argentina (2), Austria (37), Bulgaria (13), Canada (1: British Columbia), Egypt (3), Eritrea (3), Ethiopia (6), France (213), Germany (3), Gibraltar (1), Greece (1), Greenland (2), Hungary (63), India (1), Iran (1), Israel (4), Italy (19), Morocco (16), New Zealand (49), Poland (3), Portugal (17), the Russian Federation (3), Saudi Arabia (25), Serbia and Montenegro (3), Slovakia (4), Somalia (5), Spain (111), Switzerland (4), Tunisia (4), Turkey (4), Ukraine (11), the United Kingdom (43), Uzbekistan (1), Yemen (2)
• Triassic to Jurassic of New Caledonia (1), New Zealand (1)
• Triassic of Austria (52), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2), Canada (4: British Columbia), China (27), Germany (3), Hungary (9), Israel (1), Italy (6), Laos (1), New Caledonia (1), New Zealand (7), Papua New Guinea (2), Poland (2), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (36), Serbia and Montenegro (5), Slovakia (6), Tajikistan (2), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1), United States (20: Idaho, Nevada, Utah), Vietnam (1)
Total: 902 collections including 1235 occurrences