Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Kraussinidae
Synonyms: Megerlea Davidson 1856, Muehlfeldtia Bayle 1880 [objective synonym], Pantellaria Dall 1919
Full reference: W. King. 1850. Monograph of the Permian fossils of England. Palaeontographical Society 1-253
Parent taxon: Megerliinae according to M. A. Bitner and A. Müller 2017
See also Barczyk 1979, Bitner and Dulai 2004, Bitner and Martinell 2001, Cooper and Muir-Wood 1951, Sepkoski 2002 and Williams et al. 2006
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Megerlia acrura Megerlia dubitanda Megerlia echinata Megerlia eusticta Megerlia gigantea Megerlia granosa Megerlia margaritata Megerlia truncata Pantellaria monstruosa
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (2 collections), Italy (16)
• Pliocene of Algeria (4), Italy (3), Morocco (1), Spain (4), Syria (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Bulgaria (1), Czechia (2), Hungary (1), Italy (7), Poland (15), Romania (2), Slovenia (1), Spain (1)
• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (3)
• Eocene of Romania (1), Ukraine (1)
• Cretaceous of United States (1: California)
• Jurassic of Germany (1)
Total: 70 collections including 78 occurrences
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