Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebratellidae
Full reference: D. MacKinnon, S. S. Beus, and D.L. Lee. 1993. Brachiopod fauna of the Kokoamu Greensand (Oligocene), New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 36:327-347
Parent taxon: Terebratellidae according to A. Williams et al. 2006
See also Hiller and MacKinnon 2000
Sister taxa: Adnatidinae, Anakineticinae, Calloria, Chathamithyris, Erihadrosia, Magadinae, Magadinella, Magasella, Magellaniinae, Neothyridinae, Tanakura, Terebratellinae
Subtaxa: Aliquantula Austrothyris Cudmorella Elderra Epacrothyris Pilkena Rhizothyris Stethothyris Tioriorithyris
Type: Stethothyris
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (6 collections)
• Pliocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene of Australia (5), New Zealand (4)
• Oligocene of Australia (3), New Zealand (13)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (23), New Zealand (7)
• Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand (1)
Total: 64 collections including 79 occurrences