Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
Full reference: F. A. Middlemiss. 1959. English Aptian Terebratulidae. Palaeontology 2(1):94-142
Parent taxon: Rectithyridinae according to A. Williams et al. 2006
See also Cooper 1993 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Collinithyris, Moutonithyris, Neoliothyrina, Praelongithyris, Rectithyris, Rhombothyris, Tropeothyris
Subtaxa: Cyrtothyris cantabridgiensis Cyrtothyris cyrta Cyrtothyris dallasi Cyrtothyris maynci Cyrtothyris middlemissi Cyrtothyris ndumuensis Cyrtothyris seeleyi Cyrtothyris undisona Cyrtothyris uniplicata
Type: Terebratula depressa cyrta
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of France (1 collection), Germany (1), Greenland (1), Kazakhstan (1), Morocco (3), South Africa (2), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Switzerland (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (21)
• Jurassic of Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2)
Total: 38 collections including 61 occurrences
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