Family Basiliolidae Cooper 1959 (lamp shell)

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: Pugnacoidea according to C. C. Emig et al. 2013

See also Bitner and Martinell 2001, Chiesa et al. 1995, Cooper 1959, Craig 2000 and Williams et al. 2002

Sister taxa: Aseptorhynchiidae, Camerophorinidae, Erymnariidae, Ladogiidae, Paranorellidae, Petasmariidae, Plectorhynchellidae, Pseudocapillirhynchia, Pugnacidae, Pygmaellidae, Rozmanariidae, Yunnanellidae

Subtaxa: Aetheiinae Aphelesiinae Basiliocostella Basiliolinae Dagysorhynchia Lacunosellinae Pamirorhynchiinae

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Italy (5 collections), Japan (10), Vanuatu (2)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)

• Pliocene of Algeria (7), Fiji (4), Italy (2), Morocco (1), Spain (7)

• Miocene of Germany (2), Hungary (7), Italy (2), Malta (1), Spain (9)

• Oligocene of Germany (6), New Zealand (6), United States (1: Washington)

• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Cuba (1), New Zealand (7), Oman (1), United States (8: California, North Carolina, South Carolina)

• Paleocene of Austria (1), New Zealand (1)

• Cretaceous of Australia (9), Austria (4), Belgium (7), China (1), the Czech Republic (38), France (4), Germany (15), Greenland (5), Hungary (9), Italy (1), the Netherlands (4), New Zealand (4), North Pacific (1), Poland (19), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (3), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (113)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Hungary (1), Poland (2)

• Jurassic of Algeria (1), Austria (33), Bulgaria (6), the Czech Republic (1), France (78), Georgia (2), Germany (12), Greenland (7), Hungary (79), India (6), Iran (1), Italy (14), Morocco (5), Poland (6), Portugal (153), the Russian Federation (35), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Slovakia (4), Spain (151), Switzerland (10), Tunisia (21), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (6), the United Kingdom (16)

• Triassic of China (1), East Timor (1), Hungary (12), Iran (1), Italy (1), Slovakia (1)

• Permian of the Russian Federation (2)

Total: 1007 collections including 1281 occurrences

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