†family Pygopidae Muir-Wood 1965 (lamp shell)
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Pygopidae
Parent taxon: Discolioidea according to L. Bujtor and R. Albrecht 2022
See also Williams et al. 2006
Sister taxa: Carinatothyris, Dyscoliidae, Nucleatidae, Papodina
Subtaxa: Dyscoliope Glossothyris Pygopinae Sphenope Triangopinae
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Austria (2 collections), Czechia (22), France (1), Greenland (2), Hungary (24), Poland (19), Slovakia (2), Spain (1), Ukraine (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Hungary (1), Poland (10)
• Jurassic of Austria (2), Azerbaijan (1), Bulgaria (1), France (1), Greece (1), Greenland (1), Hungary (92), Italy (1), Poland (21), Slovakia (1)
Total: 207 collections including 311 occurrences