Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Alternative spelling: Aulacothyrini
Parent taxon: Zeilleriidae according to J. F. Baeza-Carratalá and F. García Joral 2014
Sister taxa: Bakonithyris, Macandreviinae, Misunithyris, Neozeilleria, Polyplectella, Securininae, Vectellinae, Zeilleriinae
Subtaxa: Aulacothyris Bakonyithyris Plesiothyris Qilianoconcha
Type: Aulacothyris
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Belgium (3 collections)
• Jurassic of Austria (12), Bulgaria (7), France (49), Germany (7), Greece (1), Hungary (60), Italy (6), New Zealand (4), Poland (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (1), Somalia (1), Spain (77), Switzerland (2), Tunisia (1), Türkiye (3), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (9)
• Triassic of Austria (8), Bosnia and Herzegovina (7), China (27), Hungary (11), Indonesia (7), Italy (7), Laos (2), Montenegro (1), New Zealand (1), Romania (1), Serbia (1), Slovakia (6), Slovenia (1)
• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 330 collections including 441 occurrences