Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebrataliidae
Parent taxon: Laqueoidea according to C. C. Emig et al. 2013
See also Gradinaru et al. 2006 and Williams et al. 2006
Sister taxa: Frenulinidae, Laqueidae, Maastrichtiella, Simplicithyris
Subtaxa: Gemmarculinae Terebrataliinae Trigonoseminae
Type: Terebratalia
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (10 collections), Mexico (1), Taiwan (1), United States (11: Alaska, California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Japan (1), Taiwan (1), United States (1: California)
• Pliocene of Japan (3), United States (23: California, Oregon)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: California)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Russian Federation (1)
• Miocene of Japan (20), United States (4: California)
• Oligocene of United States (3: Washington)
• Eocene of Mexico (1), United States (2: California)
• Cretaceous of Australia (1), Austria (3), Belgium (10), Canada (4: Alberta), China (1), France (4), Germany (3), Greenland (1), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (2), Poland (2), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (29), United States (11: Arizona, Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey)
• Jurassic of France (1), Germany (1), Greece (1), Norway (1), Ukraine (1)
Total: 165 collections including 214 occurrences