Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
Parent taxon: Terebratuloidea according to A. Williams et al. 2006
See also Gradinaru et al. 2006
Sister taxa: Capillithyrididae, Eichwaldithyris, Gibbithyrididae, Heligothyris, Ilyinella, Longithyris, Najdinothyris, Oleneothyris, Terebratulidae, Weberithyrididae
Subtaxa: Nerthebrochinae Rectithyridinae Sellithyridinae
Type: Sellithyris
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Denmark (8 collections), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)
• Cretaceous of Afghanistan (2), Algeria (7), Angola (1), Antarctica (5), Austria (4), Belgium (6), China (1), the Czech Republic (19), Egypt (1), France (39), Germany (6), Greenland (2), Hungary (2), India (3), Iran (1), Iraq (1), Italy (5), Kazakhstan (2), Madagascar (3), Mexico (1), Morocco (15), the Netherlands (8), Portugal (4), Romania (2), South Africa (5), Spain (23), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), Sweden (4), Switzerland (22), Tunisia (1), Turkmenistan (4), Ukraine (8), the United Kingdom (62), Uzbekistan (1)
• Jurassic of Bulgaria (1), Eritrea (3), Ethiopia (1), Greece (1), Poland (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Switzerland (3), Tunisia (12)
Total: 307 collections including 441 occurrences