Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Parent taxon: Rhynchonelloidea according to A. Williams et al. 2002
See also Atrops and Alméras 2005, Cooper 1957, Huxley 1869, Oraspold 1956, Perry and Chatterton 1979, Ronchetti 1970 and Stanton 1895
Sister taxa: Acanthothirididae, Inaequalibellirostridae, Nucinulidae, Platyterorhynchidae, Sapphicorhynchidae, Lepidocyclidae
Subtaxa: Bilaminellinae Davanirhynchiinae Grestenella Hypothyris Ivanoviellinae Nucleusorhynchiinae Piarorhynchiinae Praecyclothyrinae Rhynchonellinae Striirhynchiinae Uralorhynchiinae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Denmark (19 collections), United States (2: California)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (1), Antarctica (9), Canada (1: British Columbia), Denmark (7), France (16), Germany (2), Greenland (1), Hungary (1), India (3), Kazakhstan (1), Madagascar (6), Mexico (9), Mozambique (2), New Zealand (10), Poland (2), Portugal (22), the Russian Federation (20), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), Sweden (3), Switzerland (14), Tajikistan (7), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (40), United States (2: California), Uzbekistan (2)
• Heterian of New Zealand (3)
• Temaikan of New Caledonia (1), New Zealand (10)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: Alaska)
• Jurassic of Algeria (3), Argentina (3), Austria (30), Belgium (1), Bulgaria (17), Canada (10: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories), Chile (46), China (5), East Timor (1), Ethiopia (12), France (257), Georgia (1), Germany (52), Greece (2), Greenland (24), Hungary (33), India (38), Indonesia (2), Iran (2), Italy (15), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (3), Madagascar (8), Mexico (1), Morocco (3), Nepal (4), New Caledonia (20), New Zealand (300), Poland (2), Portugal (33), the Russian Federation (55), Saudi Arabia (1), Serbia and Montenegro (4), Slovakia (5), Somalia (2), Spain (228), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Switzerland (10), Tunisia (20), Turkey (4), Ukraine (6), the United Kingdom (165), United States (5: Alaska, California, Nevada, Wyoming)
• Kaihikuan of New Zealand (4)
• Triassic to Jurassic of New Zealand (1)
• Triassic of Argentina (3), Austria (17), Bosnia and Herzegovina (19), Canada (4: British Columbia), Chile (4), China (33), East Timor (3), Germany (1), Hungary (14), India (2), Indonesia (8), Italy (25), Japan (2), Kazakhstan (2), Nepal (1), New Caledonia (34), New Zealand (552), Norway (1), Oman (2), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (83), Serbia and Montenegro (3), Slovakia (4), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Turkey (3), Ukraine (4), United States (16: Alaska, California, Idaho, Nevada, Utah)
• Permian of Austria (1), Bolivia (1), India (1), Italy (6), Malaysia (1), Pakistan (1), Slovenia (1), United States (2: California, Texas)
• Carboniferous to Permian of United States (1: California)
• Carboniferous of India (2), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (10: California, Georgia, Indiana, Montana, Tennessee)
• Devonian of Algeria (1), Australia (57), Brazil (4), Canada (4: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec), the Czech Republic (2), France (4), Italy (2), Morocco (1), New Zealand (2), United States (12: Alaska, Indiana, Montana, Nevada, Ohio)
• Silurian to Devonian of Spain (1)
• Silurian of Australia (1), Canada (4: Northwest Territories, Ontario), Ireland (1), Mexico (7), Norway (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (25: Alaska, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio)
• Ordovician of Australia (2), Norway (2)
Total: 2677 collections including 3153 occurrences