†subfamily Zygopleurinae Wenz 1938 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Zygopleuridae

Synonyms: Goniospiridae Golikov and Starobogatov 1987, Goniospirinae Golikov and Starobogatov 1987, Polygyrinidae Bandel 1993

Parent taxon: Zygopleuridae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005

See also Kaim 2004 and Nützel and Kaim 2014

Sister taxa: Allocosmia, Allostrophiinae, Ampezzopleurinae, Andangulariinae, Aristerostrophia, Azyga, Hypsipleura, Pseudokatosira, Raha, Virgella, Xizangospira, Zardinistylus, Zebalia

Subtaxa: Goniospira Levipleura Polygyrina Teutonica Zygopleura

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Type: Zygopleura

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Paleocene to Eocene of Turkey (1 collection)

• Jurassic of Chile (1), Germany (49), Hungary (1), India (4), Israel (1), Italy (1), Luxembourg (1), New Zealand (2), Poland (5), Portugal (2), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (1), Tanzania (2), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (30)

• Triassic of Austria (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (30), Colombia (2), Germany (1), Hungary (13), Iran (4), Italy (56), Oman (1), Peru (5), Poland (1), Romania (1), Slovakia (3), Switzerland (1), Tunisia (1), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (14: Alaska, Idaho, Utah)

• Permian to Triassic of China (1)

• Permian of China (5), Germany (2), Indonesia (2), Tunisia (2), the United Kingdom (4), United States (2: Texas)

• Desmoinesian of United States (2: Oklahoma)

• Carboniferous of United States (7: Alaska, Kansas, Oklahoma)

Total: 270 collections including 328 occurrences

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