†family Mentzeliidae Dagys 1974 (lamp shell)
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Mentzeliidae
Parent taxon: Spiriferinoidea according to W. H. He and Z. Q. Chen 2016
Sister taxa: Paralaballidae, Sinucostidae, Spiriferinidae
Subtaxa: Madoinae Mentzeliinae Tethyspirinae
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Austria (20 collections), Bosnia and Herzegovina (16), Bulgaria (1), China (53), Croatia (1), Germany (3), Hungary (41), India (2), Iran (8), Italy (43), Montenegro (2), New Caledonia (1), New Zealand (1), Romania (6), the Russian Federation (5), Serbia (4), Slovakia (11), Slovenia (2), Thailand (1), Türkiye (35), United States (1: Wyoming), Vietnam (1), Yemen (1)
• Permian of Pakistan (6)
Total: 265 collections including 370 occurrences