†family Dimerellidae Buckman 1917 (lamp shell)
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Dimerellidae
Full reference: S. S. Buckman. 1917. The Brachiopoda of the Namyau Beds, Northern Shan States, Burma. Palaeontologia Indica 3(2):1-254
Parent taxon: Dimerelloidea according to A. Williams et al. 2002
See also Atrops and Alméras 2005
Sister taxa: Cryptoporidae, Halorellidae, Peregrinellidae
Subtaxa: Dimerellinae Rhynchonellininae
Type: Dimerella
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Hungary (3 collections), Italy (3), Switzerland (3), United States (2: California)
• Triassic of New Zealand (1)
• Permian of India (1), Pakistan (5)
• Carboniferous of Germany (2)
Total: 20 collections including 23 occurrences