Zittelina Rollier 1919 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Kingenidae

Parent taxon: Kingeninae according to A. Williams et al. 2006

See also Kiessling 2003 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Aldingia, Dictyothyropsis, Kingena, Paraldingia, Tulipina, Zeuschneria

Subtaxa: Zittelina beneckei Zittelina farringdonensis Zittelina friesenensis Zittelina hofmanni Zittelina orbis Zittelina pinguicula Zittelina wahlenbergi

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Type: Terebratula orbis

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Hungary (1 collection), Poland (10), Slovakia (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Yemen (1)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Poland (2)

• Jurassic of Algeria (1), Ethiopia (1), France (8), Hungary (3), Poland (15), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (3), Tunisia (3)

Total: 53 collections including 60 occurrences

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