Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Parent taxon: Terebratulidae according to A. Williams et al. 2006
See also Atrops and Alméras 2005, Bitner and Martinell 2001 and Craig 2000
Sister taxa: Arapsothyris, Blandfordithyris, Cheirothyrinae, Dallithyridinae, Dictyothyrinae, Ebiscothyris, Gryphinae, Indothyris, Kossmatithyris, Liothyrina, Loboidothyrinae, Lobothyrinae, Plicatoriinae, Pseudogibbithyris, Seymourellinae, Stoliczkathyris, Tichosininae
Subtaxa: Acrobrochus Giraliathyris Gurlarnella Liothyrella Maltaia Pliothyrina Pycnobrochus Rhytisoria Terebratula
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (1 collection), Italy (19), the United Kingdom (4)
• Pliocene of Algeria (12), Belgium (1), Greece (3), Italy (7), Morocco (2), the Netherlands (3), Spain (19), the United Kingdom (9)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1), United States (2: Alaska)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Antarctica (1), Australia (6), Austria (3), Belgium (1), Czechia (3), Germany (11), Greece (1), Greenland (3), Hungary (18), Indonesia (2), Italy (5), Malta (3), New Zealand (12), Poland (12), Romania (2), Slovenia (1), Spain (10), Ukraine (1), United States (1: California)
• Oligocene of Germany (20), Japan (1), New Zealand (6)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (10), Australia (28), France (13), Greenland (1), Italy (1), New Zealand (10), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (2: North Carolina, Washington)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1), New Zealand (1), Spain (1), United States (6: Alabama, California, Maryland)
• Paleogene of Antarctica (1)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (2), Antarctica (2), Australia (12), Colombia (1), France (14), Germany (1), Iran (1), Italy (1), Madagascar (3), Mexico (8), New Zealand (4), Poland (2), Serbia (2), Sweden (1), Switzerland (17), the United Kingdom (8), United States (3: California, New Jersey)
• Heterian of New Zealand (1)
• Jurassic of Argentina (1), Austria (2), Canada (5: Alberta, British Columbia), Chile (34), Egypt (3), Ethiopia (11), France (26), Germany (17), Greece (1), Greenland (1), Hungary (2), India (9), Indonesia (2), Italy (14), Japan (1), Madagascar (5), New Zealand (3), Poland (2), Portugal (3), Romania (2), Saudi Arabia (21), Serbia (2), Slovenia (1), Somalia (3), Spain (5), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Tunisia (27), the United Kingdom (7), Yemen (2)
• Triassic of Austria (5), Bosnia and Herzegovina (11), Canada (2: British Columbia), Chile (1), Germany (2), Hungary (7), Indonesia (2), Italy (25), Montenegro (2), New Zealand (1), Slovakia (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), Timor-Leste (1), United States (11: Alaska, California)
• Permian of Australia (2)
Total: 660 collections including 823 occurrences