Basiliolidae

Belongs within: Rhynchonellida.

The Basiliolidae are a family of smooth or semicostate brachiopods known from the Cretaceous to the present (Ager et al. 1965).

Characters (Ager et al. 1965): Smooth or semicostate; conjunct deltidial plates and small auriculate foramen; well-developed pedicle collar; broad falcifer crura supported by outer hinge plates or socket ridges; median septum in brachial valve reduced to ridge or absent.

<==BasiliolidaeAG65
    |--Aphelesia Cooper 1959 [Aphelesiinae]AG65
    |    `--*A. bipartita (Brocchi 1814) [=Anomia bipartita]AG65
    |--AetheiinaeAG65
    |    |--Aetheia Thomson 1915 [=Thomsonica Cossmann 1920]AG65
    |    |    `--A. gualteri (Morris 1850)AG65 (see below for synonymy)
    |    `--Patagorhynchia Allan 1938AG65
    |         `--*P. patagonica (von Ihering 1903) [=Rhynchonella patagonica]AG65
    `--BasiliolinaeAG65
         |--Eohemithiris Hertlein & Grant 1944 [=Eohemithyris Cooper 1959]AG65
         |    `--*E. alexi Hertlein & Grant 1944AG65
         |--Rhytirhynchia Cooper 1957AG65
         |    `--*R. sladeni (Dall 1910) [=Hemithyris sladeni]AG65
         |--Streptaria Cooper 1959AG65
         |    `--*S. debruchii (Michelotti 1938) [=Terebratula debruchii]AG65
         |--Neorhynchia Thomson 1915AG65
         |    |--*N. strebeli (Dall 1908) [=Hemithyris strebeli]AG65
         |    `--N. profundaWJ97
         |--Basiliola Dall 1908 [=Basiola (l. c.); incl. Neohemithyris Yabe & Hatai 1934]AG65
         |    |--*B. beecheri (Dall 1895) [=Hemithyris beecheri]AG65
         |    `--‘Rhynchonella’ lucida Gould 1861 [=*Neohemithyris lucida]AG65
         `--Probolarina Cooper 1959AG65
              |--*P. holmesii (Dall 1903) [=Rhynchonella holmesii]AG65
              |--P. brevirostris Cooper 1988HB93
              `--P. chathamensis Lee 1978HB93

Aetheia gualteri (Morris 1850)^AG65 [=Terebratula gualteri^AG65, Thomsonica gaulteri^A26; incl. Waldheimia sinuata Hutton 1873^AG65, *Aetheia sinuata^AG65, *Thomsonica sinuata^AG65]

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[AG65] Ager, D. V., R. E. Grant, D. J. McLaren & H. Schmidt. 1965. Rhynchonellida. In: Moore, R. C. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt H. Brachiopoda vol. 2 pp. H552–H632. The Geological Society of America, Inc.: Boulder (Colorado), and The University of Kansas Press: Lawrence (Kansas).

[A26] Allan, R. S. 1926. The geology and palaeontology of the Lower Waihao Basin, south Canterbury, New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 57: 265–309.

[HB93] Harper, D. A. T., C. H. C. Brunton, L. R. M. Cocks, P. Copper, E. N. Doyle, A. L. Jeffrey, E. F. Owen, M. A. Parkes, L. E. Popov & C. D. Prosser. 1993. Brachiopoda. In: Benton, M. J. (ed.) The Fossil Record 2 pp. 427–462. Chapman & Hall: London.

[WJ97] Williams, A., M. A. James, C. C. Emig, S. Mackay & M. C. Rhodes. 1997. Anatomy. In: Kaesler, R. L. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt H. Brachiopoda, Revised vol. 1. Introduction pp. 7–188. The Geological Society of America: Boulder (Colorado), and The University of Kansas: Lawrence (Kansas).