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

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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

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