Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Palaeozygopleuridae
Alternative spelling: Paleozygopleuridae
Full reference: R. J. Horný. 1955. Palaeozygopleuridae nov. fam. (Gastropoda) ze stredoceskeho devonu. Sbornik Ustredního Ústavuu Geologického oddíl Paleontologicky 21(1):17-74
Parent taxon: Loxonematoidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005
See also Golikov and Starobogatov 1975, Heidelberger and Bandel 1999, Knight et al. 1960, Mazaev 2015 and Ponder and Warén 1988
Sister taxa: Acrospira, Crassimarginatidae, Loxonematidae, Scoliostomatidae, Soleniscidae, Spirostylidae, Vetotuba, Zygopleuridae
Subtaxa: Alaskozygopleura Bohemozyga Bojozyga Cimrmaniela Devonozyga Hainanema Heteroloxonema Hornyzyga Kallispira Medfrazyga Palaeozygopleura Pragozyga Rhenozyga Seleukella Sturgeonospira Urftia
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Japan (1 collection), the Russian Federation (2), Thailand (1), Venezuela (1)
• Carboniferous of Australia (12), Ireland (1), Poland (2), the United Kingdom (7), United States (11: California, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio, Oklahoma)
• Givetian of France (3)
• Devonian of Australia (10), Czechia (24), France (1), Germany (12), Kyrgyzstan (1), Morocco (7), New Zealand (1), Poland (5), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (6), the United Kingdom (4), United States (91: Alaska, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania)
• Silurian of the United Kingdom (2), United States (2: Alaska, California)
Total: 208 collections including 265 occurrences