Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Alternative spelling: Zeilleridae
Parent taxon: Zeillerioidea according to C. C. Emig et al. 2013
See also Dagys 1977, Feldman et al. 2001, Perry and Chatterton 1979, Williams et al. 2006 and Zezina 2010
Sister taxa: Eudesiidae, Gusarellidae
Subtaxa: Aulacothyrinae Bakonithyris Macandreviinae Misunithyris Neozeilleria Polyplectella Securininae Vectellinae Zeilleriinae
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (1 collection), Italy (2)
• Pliocene of Belgium (3), the Netherlands (1), the United Kingdom (3)
• Miocene of Japan (3), Spain (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (2)
• Cretaceous of Bulgaria (1), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), France (10), Germany (5), Greenland (2), Indonesia (2), Mexico (3), Portugal (3), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (24)
• Jurassic of Algeria (5), Argentina (2), Austria (39), Bulgaria (16), Canada (2: British Columbia), Egypt (3), Eritrea (3), Ethiopia (6), France (223), Germany (16), Gibraltar (1), Greece (3), Greenland (5), Hungary (87), India (1), Iran (1), Israel (4), Italy (22), Morocco (16), New Caledonia (1), New Zealand (50), Poland (5), Portugal (82), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (5), Saudi Arabia (33), Serbia and Montenegro (3), Slovakia (4), Somalia (8), Spain (167), Switzerland (11), Tunisia (6), Turkey (4), Ukraine (16), the United Kingdom (45), United States (2: California), Uzbekistan (1), Yemen (10)
• Triassic to Jurassic of New Caledonia (1), New Zealand (2)
• Triassic of Austria (60), Bosnia and Herzegovina (9), Canada (8: British Columbia), China (59), Germany (3), Hungary (20), Indonesia (7), Israel (1), Italy (12), Laos (2), New Caledonia (3), New Zealand (18), Papua New Guinea (2), Poland (6), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (54), Serbia and Montenegro (7), Slovakia (13), Slovenia (1), Spain (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Tajikistan (2), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1), United States (20: Idaho, Nevada, Utah), Vietnam (1)
• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 1301 collections including 1958 occurrences