Family Aulacothyropsidae Dagys 1972 (lamp shell)
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Aulacothyropsidae
Parent taxon: Kingenoidea according to C. C. Emig et al. 2013
See also Williams et al. 2006
Sister taxa: Arzonellinidae, Kingenidae, Trigonellina
Subtaxa: Aulacothyropsinae Babukellinae Fallax
Type: Aulacothyropsis
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (19 collections)
• Cretaceous of Hungary (2), Poland (6), Spain (1)
• Jurassic of Poland (9)
• 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: 75 collections including 84 occurrences