Family Cancellothyrididae Thomson 1926 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae

Parent taxon: Cancellothyridoidea according to M. A. Bitner and A. Müller 2017

See also Emig et al. 2013, Gradinaru et al. 2006, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995 and Williams et al. 2006

Sister taxa: Chlidonophoridae, Cnismatocentridae, Inopinatarculidae, Pseudokingena

Subtaxa: Alithyridinae Cancellothyridinae Cooperithyris Cricosiinae

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Type: Cancellothyris

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), Barbados (2), Greece (2), Italy (14), Jamaica (6), Japan (43), United States (2: California, Oregon), Vanuatu (10)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Japan (1), Taiwan (1)

• Pliocene of Algeria (3), the Dominican Republic (2), Fiji (3), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Japan (4), the Netherlands (2), Spain (2)

• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Alaska)

• Miocene of Australia (3), Cuba (6), Greenland (2), Hungary (1), Italy (2), Jamaica (1), Japan (16), New Zealand (6), Poland (3), Slovenia (1), South Africa (5), Spain (1)

• Oligocene of Australia (1), France (3), Germany (5), New Zealand (6)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Germany (1)

• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Australia (17), Austria (20), Cuba (4), Egypt (2), Hungary (11), Italy (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (13), Poland (3), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (1), Spain (6), Switzerland (2), Tanzania (1), Tonga (1), Ukraine (1), the United Arab Emirates (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (45: Alabama, California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington)

• Paleocene of Austria (1), Denmark (20), Egypt (2), France (1), the Netherlands (1), United States (7: Alabama, California, Georgia)

• Paleogene of Antarctica (1)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of Australia (1), Belgium (29), Bulgaria (1), China (1), Cuba (4), the Czech Republic (54), Denmark (6), France (24), Germany (13), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (2), the Netherlands (9), Poland (15), Romania (1), Spain (1), Sweden (2), Switzerland (4), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (84), United States (23: Alabama, Delaware, Mississippi, Texas)

• Heterian of New Zealand (1)

• Temaikan of New Zealand (1)

• Jurassic of France (1), Georgia (1), Germany (4), Greece (1), India (2), New Zealand (19), Poland (2), Portugal (1), Romania (3), Switzerland (5), United States (1: California)

Total: 660 collections including 861 occurrences

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