†subfamily Kingeninae Elliott 1948 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Kingenidae

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

See also Sandy et al. 1995

Sister taxon: Ecnomiosinae

Subtaxa: Aldingia Dictyothyropsis Kingena Paraldingia Tulipina Zeuschneria Zittelina

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Type: Kingena

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Miocene of Antarctica (1 collection), Australia (2)

• Eocene of Australia (24), United States (1: California)

• Paleocene of Denmark (1), United States (6: California)

• Cretaceous of Angola (1), Antarctica (2), Australia (16), Belgium (4), Bulgaria (1), Denmark (7), the Dominican Republic (1), France (2), Hungary (1), Iran (1), Italy (1), Mexico (8), the Netherlands (3), New Zealand (10), Poland (19), Serbia (1), Slovakia (2), Spain (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), the United Kingdom (28), Yemen (1)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Poland (2)

• Jurassic of Algeria (1), Ethiopia (1), France (8), Germany (1), Hungary (3), Poland (17), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (4), Tunisia (3)

Total: 189 collections including 208 occurrences

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