Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida
Parent taxon: Terebratellidina according to C. C. Emig et al. 2013
See also Williams et al. 2006
Sister taxa: Antigoniarcula, Bouchardioidea, Dallinoidea, Eogryphus, Gwyniella, Hercothyris, Kraussinoidea, Kurakithyris, Laqueoidea, Leptothyrellopsis, Lutetiarcula, Magas, Megathyridoidea, Miogryphus, Mosaethyrididae, Platidioidea, Praeneothyris, Rhynchora, Rhynchorina, Terebratelloidea, Tiaretithyris, Timacella, Xinjiangthyris, Yabeithyris, Yuezhuella, Zeillerioidea, Zhidothyris
Subtaxa: Arzonellinidae Aulacothyropsidae Kingenidae Trigonellina
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (19 collections)
• Miocene of Antarctica (1), 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 (3), Iran (1), Italy (1), Mexico (8), the Netherlands (3), New Zealand (10), Poland (25), Serbia (1), Slovakia (2), South Africa (1), Spain (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (28), United States (4: California), Yemen (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Poland (2)
• Jurassic of Algeria (1), Ethiopia (1), France (11), Germany (1), Hungary (3), Montenegro (1), Poland (17), Portugal (1), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (6), Tunisia (3), Ukraine (2)
• Triassic of Austria (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (8), Hungary (4), Iran (2), Italy (5), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (9), Slovakia (3), Tajikistan (1), Ukraine (2), Vietnam (1)
Total: 270 collections including 319 occurrences