Family Thecideidae Gray 1840 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Thecideida - Thecideidae

Parent taxon: Thecideoidea according to M. A. Bitner and A. Müller 2017

See also Baker 2005, Emig et al. 2013, Olivier et al. 2003 and Williams et al. 2006

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Ancorellininae Lacazellinae Protolacazella Thecideinae

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Type: Thecidea

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Spain (1 collection), Vanuatu (6)

• Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (3), Spain (1)

• Miocene of Cuba (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (5), New Zealand (2), Spain (1)

• Oligocene of France (6), Germany (3), Puerto Rico (2)

• Eocene of Hungary (1), Italy (1), Ukraine (1)

• Paleocene of the Netherlands (1), Spain (2), United States (1: Alabama)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Belgium (8), the Czech Republic (7), France (3), Germany (3), the Netherlands (4), Romania (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (4)

• Jurassic of France (3), Germany (1), Poland (5), Portugal (1), the United Kingdom (3)

• Triassic of Austria (1)

Total: 85 collections including 89 occurrences

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