Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1959. Genera of Tertiary and Recent rhynchonelloid brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 130(5):1-90
Parent taxon: Basiliolidae according to A. Williams et al. 2002
See also Bitner and Martinell 2001 and Cooper 1959
Sister taxa: Aetheiinae, Basiliocostella, Basiliolinae, Dagysorhynchia, Lacunosellinae, Pamirorhynchiinae
Subtaxa: Aphelesia Homaletarhynchia
Type: Aphelesia
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (5 collections)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Algeria (7), Italy (2), Morocco (1), Spain (7)
• Miocene of Germany (2), Hungary (7), Malta (1), Spain (9)
• Oligocene of Germany (6)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (7), France (1), Germany (1), the Netherlands (4), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (18)
Total: 80 collections including 88 occurrences